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“People are prosocial creatures. We typically form enduring bonds with others. We find spending time with our family and friends rewarding, we rejoice in their good fortune, we want to help them and often go to a substantial degree of bother for others. This applies particularly in relation to people whom we consider to be part of our ‘in group’, but also often in relation to strangers.”

People Prosocial

Book:Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

“The primary problem for individuals on the autism spectrum is not the inability to feel for others, but the profound difficulty in reading other people’s minds and consequently behaving in a socially appropriate manner. This means that individuals on the autism spectrum can come across as if they lack empathy, but in fact many of them report that they feel deeply for other people’s and animals’ misfortune.”

Empathy Autism Spectrum

Book:Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

“it is not enough to know what is right or wrong, it is also critically important to ‘feel it’. Feeling for other people’s distress, finding it upsetting, is what researchers think is a key motivator of moral behaviour.”

Feeling Right Or Wrong Moral Behavior

Book:Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

“No one is born a psychopath.”

Book:Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

“Psychopaths do not have the same capacity for human feeling as the rest of us, they do not appear moved by the things that usually deeply affect others, such as seeing fellow human beings suffer or in distress. And this is perhaps why they do not experience genuine remorse for the hurt and misfortune that they inflict.”

Book:Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

“A number of studies of adult psychopaths have shown that although they are able to make appropriate moral judgements (deciding that an action is wrong), they use different brain areas to make these decisions than typical adults or other incarcerated inmates who do not have psychopathy.”

Book:Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

“Perhaps one of the reasons that psychopaths find it difficult to resonate with other people’s distress is that distress emotions are relatively alien to them. If you do not feel something yourself, it is difficult to fully orient to and empathize with that feeling in others. For example, if you are not regularly distressed yourself, why would you be able to automatically resonate with other people’s distress? This also means that you may not automatically project the consequences of your behaviour in a way that evokes feelings of guilt. In this situation, what is there to hold you back if you want to look after ‘number one’?”

Psychopaths Distresss

Book:Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

“Antisocial personality disorder does not equate to psychopathy. Although most individuals with psychopathy would qualify for an antisocial personality disorder diagnosis, the converse is not true. Many more individuals qualify for an antisocial personality disorder diagnosis than have psychopathy.”

Psychopathy Antisocial Personality Disorder

Book:Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction