Psychopathy

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. Throughout his career, he gained notoriety for various literary works, including “The Birthmark.” “The Birthmark” follows the protagonist, Aylmer, and his deadly obsession with entangling science with his love for his wife, Georgiana. Throughout this selection of Hawthorne’s work, readers question Aylmer's morality, the definition of true beauty, and whether physical perfection is attainable. The central conflict of the short…

Anti-social Personality Disorder New Jersey City University Introduction to Psychology Gabrielle Napoleon 12/12/16 Abstract Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is a mental illness that is characterized by impulsive behavior, a reckless disregard for social norms, and an inability to experience guilt. Individuals with ASPD exhibit an inflated sense of self-worth and possess a superficial charm, traits that often aid their attempts to violate the rights of other individuals. Although…

Eagleman uses the term psychopathy when discussing this possibility, although not a clinical term. He likely uses this to relate to the general population and avoid more technical definitions that most people would not fully understand. He mentions that Paddock’s father had a criminal…

Nothing wrecks human beings more than psychology. Now a days, there is a diagnosis for anything we could imagine. It’s almost an excuse for our actions. Serial killers, or serial murderers, are psychologists favorite test subjects simply because they starve to find a reason why, psychologically of course, they would kill multiple people. Although psychology should not justify our behavior, it is true that it has a huge effect on people, for example, serial killers. There is a trend in these…

Naturally, ardent fans became upset, some even going as far as threatening to leave the fanbase after Sansa’s sexual assault, including Senator Claire McCaskill, who after the episode tweeted: Ok, I’m done Game of Thrones. Water Garden, stupid. Gratuitous rape scene disgusting and unacceptable. It was a rocky ride that just ended. (Cillizza) After suggestions that Game of Thrones relies on rape more heavily than A Song of Ice and Fire does, Tumblr user Tafkar conducted research on how…

Conduct Disorder (CD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) are two types of childhood disruptive behaviour disorders characterised by anti-social behaviour due to the impulsive and aggressive nature of their symptoms. There exists a sub population known as Callous Unemotional (CU) who display an increased severity of symptoms in particular a lack of guilt, empathy and emotion that have been found to lead to an increased severity and persistence of anti-social behaviour (Chabrol, Valls,…

Her mother left one day and never returned. Aileen’s alcoholic grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos adopted Aileen and her brother in 1960. The Wuornoses raised the two children as their own, along with their other two other children. Aileen and her brother were never told that Lauri and Britta were in fact their grandparents and not their parents. Both children were physically abused by their grandparents. Her grandparents were distant and unaffectionate. Her grandfather was emotionally…

Should empathy be fostered in children from an early age? Yes, it should. Empathy is an important skill to foster in young children. It has many benefits and the consequences of going without it can be detrimental to an individual’s social life, career, and health. The topic of empathy is a broad subject; this paper will focus on the definition, and some of its pros and cons, developmental stages, nurturing methods, and resources on fostering empathy, in regards to children. According to The…

LOCUS OF CONTROL The locus of control is the framework of social learning theory that explains how people take responsibility for their actions and how they believed to be the master of their own fate (Mearns, 2016). Furthermore, the concept of locus of control splits people into internal and external personality attributes. Zimbardo (1985) accounted that it is a belief about whether the outcomes of actions are contingent on the events outside (external) or under their personal control…

When we think of morality, what comes to mind? Are our actions merely based on what we feel we ought to do, or do we simply base our action on reason? In order to get a clear picture, we need to view all arguments that surround this question. To do this, we will be looking at research on psychopaths, to see if our morality falls on rationalism or sentimentalism. Throughout the years, morality was thought to be a rational concept. Meaning it is based on reason, independent of our emotional…