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<blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 2131002" data-attributes="member: 1294"><p>What Psychopaths Teach Us about How to Succeed </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-psychopaths-teach-us-about-how-to-succeed" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-psychopaths-teach-us-about-how-to-succeed</a></p><p></p><p>The Benefits of Being a Psychopath</p><p></p><p><a href="http://thedailybanter.com/2012/11/the-benefits-of-being-a-psychopath/" target="_blank">http://thedailybanter.com/2012/11/the-benefits-of-being-a-psychopath/</a></p><p></p><p>Psychopathic boldness tied to US presidential success</p><p></p><p><a href="http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/09/11/psychopathic.boldness.tied.us.presidential.success" target="_blank">http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/09/11/psychopathic.boldness.tied.us.presidential.success</a></p><p></p><p>Some investigators have even speculated that “successful psychopaths”-those who attain prominent positions in society-may be overrepresented in certain occupations, such as politics, business and entertainment. Yet the scientific evidence for this intriguing conjecture is preliminary.</p><p></p><p>Most psychopaths are male, although the reasons for this sex difference are unknown. Psychopathy seems to be present in both Western and non-Western cultures, including those that have had minimal exposure to media portrayals of the condition. In a 1976 study anthropologist Jane M. Murphy, then at Harvard University, found that an isolated group of Yupik-speaking Inuits near the Bering Strait had a term (kunlangeta) they used to describe “a man who &#8230; repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and &#8230; takes sexual advantage of many women-someone who does not pay attention to reprimands and who is always being brought to the elders for punishment.” When Murphy asked an Inuit what the group would typically do with a kunlangeta, he replied, “Somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking.”</p><p></p><p>The best-established measure of psychopathy, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), developed by University of British Columbia psychologist Robert D. Hare, requires a standardized interview with subjects and an examination of their file records, such as their criminal and educational histories. Analyses of the PCL-R reveal that it comprises at least three overlapping, but separable, constellations of traits: interpersonal deficits (such as grandiosity, arrogance and deceitfulness), affective deficits (lack of guilt and empathy, for instance), and impulsive and criminal behaviors (including sexual promiscuity and stealing).</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-psychopath-means" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-psychopath-means</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Billybob, post: 2131002, member: 1294"] What Psychopaths Teach Us about How to Succeed [url]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-psychopaths-teach-us-about-how-to-succeed[/url] The Benefits of Being a Psychopath [url]http://thedailybanter.com/2012/11/the-benefits-of-being-a-psychopath/[/url] Psychopathic boldness tied to US presidential success [url]http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/09/11/psychopathic.boldness.tied.us.presidential.success[/url] Some investigators have even speculated that “successful psychopaths”-those who attain prominent positions in society-may be overrepresented in certain occupations, such as politics, business and entertainment. Yet the scientific evidence for this intriguing conjecture is preliminary. Most psychopaths are male, although the reasons for this sex difference are unknown. Psychopathy seems to be present in both Western and non-Western cultures, including those that have had minimal exposure to media portrayals of the condition. In a 1976 study anthropologist Jane M. Murphy, then at Harvard University, found that an isolated group of Yupik-speaking Inuits near the Bering Strait had a term (kunlangeta) they used to describe “a man who … repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and … takes sexual advantage of many women-someone who does not pay attention to reprimands and who is always being brought to the elders for punishment.” When Murphy asked an Inuit what the group would typically do with a kunlangeta, he replied, “Somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking.” The best-established measure of psychopathy, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), developed by University of British Columbia psychologist Robert D. Hare, requires a standardized interview with subjects and an examination of their file records, such as their criminal and educational histories. Analyses of the PCL-R reveal that it comprises at least three overlapping, but separable, constellations of traits: interpersonal deficits (such as grandiosity, arrogance and deceitfulness), affective deficits (lack of guilt and empathy, for instance), and impulsive and criminal behaviors (including sexual promiscuity and stealing). [url]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-psychopath-means[/url] [/QUOTE]
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