The standard definition of a psychopath is a person with an antisocial personality disorder followed by violent, immoral, felonious, or immoral behavior devoid of compassion or shame.
The callous and unemotional (CU) characters linked with psychopathy in adults can now be noticed in toddlers and infants. Signs of psychopathic traits can be consistently noticed in children as young as three letting children at risk of becoming antisocial adults.
King's College London investigators observed 213 babies and were interested to find that whether they were more captivated by a red ball than people's faces. The babies were first examined at five weeks. They were then studied again at two-and-a-half years old to conclude …show more content…
Animals are battered, mainly helpless and defenseless ones, for the reason that the committer does not care that they have feelings and can experience not only physical pain but also emotional pain.
Animals can feel discomfort and suffer, like as humans can, but because psychopaths have incapability to understand that animals are able to feel discomfort and pain they feel no shame or guilt.
Lack of Empathy:
Lack of empathy and remorse is a common attribute of a psychopath. If a child often harms or bullies others, but shows no obvious emotion when their sufferers express pain, they may have a malfunction in the brain network linking the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex. This neurological feature has been noted in psychopaths, and may describe their incapability to care about the harm they cause or the penalties of their actions. A lack of morality and empathy are typical traits of a psychopath.
Setting Fires
Though more often the fires set by mostly children are burnt out of curiosity rather than cruelty, a persistent interest in setting fires may be an early indication of psychopathic or antisocial