Psychopathy

What Is a Psychopath? The neuroscience of psychopathy reports some intriguing findings. https://www.psychologytoday.com. Psychology Today. 30 Jan. 2013. An article describing the characteristics of psychopaths and sociopaths. The article covers many areas such as violence over confidence and shallow…

Behind the Serial Killer Serial killers are some of the most interesting people in the world. They have almost everyone in the United States fooled and everyone thinks that these individuals have mental issues or do not know what they are doing is wrong. It is almost the exact opposite, most serial killers are normal everyday people that all know what they did was wrong, and almost all of them have above average intelligence. Most people think that serial killers and mass shooters have the same…

reason why is because capitalism at its most callous, rewards psychopathic behavior: lack of empathy, glibness, being cunning and manipulative. In fact, capitalism, perhaps at its least forgiving state, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy. It's like a form of psychopathy that's come down to rule us all. So being the journalist that I am, I tried testing this statistic out. The first CEO I emailed didn’t reply, although that’s probably my fault seeing as I sent them a message asking “if I…

successful and unsuccessful political leadership,” written Lilienfeld et al explores the sociopathic trait of “fearless dominance” as determinant in predicting successful presidents. Lilienfeld et al (2012) states that “boldness often associated with psychopathy may confer advantages across a host of occupations, vocations, and social roles, such as positions of power and prestige in politics, business, law enforcement, athletics, and the military.” The authors theorized that those Presidents…

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are severe eating disorders struggled by many individuals today. Anorexia nervosa is a condition of the intense fear to gain weight, which results in consistent lack of eating. Bulimia nervosa, involves frequent episodes of binge eating followed by throwing up due to fear of gaining weight. The mortality rate for anorexia is the highest of all mental disorders, yet the genetic factors relating to it were once ignored. It is easy to think that anorexia and…

The American Disconnect My Great Grandfather, at the age of 15, hopped on a boat from Poland and sailed to New York to escape the Nazi reign. In New York, he swept floors at a barber shop until he made enough money to invest in stocks. He became very wealthy after much hard work, achieving the American Dream, and becoming the epitome of the rags to riches stories that are so inspiring among Americans. Achieving the American Dream is a quintessential desire to native born Americans and…

Whitman’s case in the presence of a brain tumor that was pressing against his amgydala (Midd, 2000). The amgydala is a small structure in the frontal lobe of the brain that helps to regulate emotions. There are close ties between the amgydala, psychopathy, and lack of emotion (Bartol, 2011). This concerns Whitman because to shoot down your loving wife and mother along with bystanders had to have taken an absence of emotion and is similar to acts that a sociopath may commit. In multiple mass…

Nowadays if we open the news wherever we attention them, we find crime history every single channel. The bad news such as criminals has become a piece of our daily lives. So that about this news means that ignore the darkness behind our society? No, absolutely not. Disqualifying crime and criminals is our responsibility, and we can’t reject it. Getting the properly blamed to the death penalty or sentenced is very significant. Definitely not every criminals obligate a case due to they do not have…

Storytelling is a way to communicate to society in a way that creates a relatable instance such that the reader can see themselves, or a version of themselves, within the story. Storytelling also is a way to demonstrate the struggles of other individuals within a society that a reader my not experience directly, but can nonetheless gain a broader understanding of different struggles within society. Although there are many ways to utilize storytelling techniques, I will apply the approach of…

Mass murder is the act of murdering several people, at least four, mostly through though not limited to simultaneous killings, and in close geographical proximity (Duwe). It is not to be confused with spree killing, which is the murdering of one or two people in different locations. Though every mass murderer is different and has distinct motivations for their killings, patterns have been gathered because mass murder has become a media sensation throughout the years. It is alarming how much…