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Inside A Psychopath's Brain: The Sentencing Debate : NPR - 0 views

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  • The scores range from zero to 40
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      Giuliano Musacchio on 01 Mar 12
       
      low numbers: GOOD high numbers: BAD
  • He says he can often see it in their eyes: There's an intensity in their stare, as if they're trying to pick up signals on how to respond. But the eyes are not an element of psychopathy, just a clue.
  • cores their pathology on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, which measures traits such as the inability to feel empathy or remorse, pathological lying, or impulsivity.
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  • He seems calm, even normal
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      Giuliano Musacchio on 01 Mar 12
       
      They can be hard to identify, they seem like regular people
  • his IQ is over 140
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      Giuliano Musacchio on 01 Mar 12
       
      They are smart...
  • The subjects rate whether the picture is a moral violation on a scale of 1 to 5. Kiehl says most psychopaths do not differ from normal subjects in the way they rate the photos: Both psychopaths and the average person rank the KKK with a burning cross as a moral violation. But there's a key difference: Psychopaths' brains behave differently from that of a nonpsychopathic person. When a normal person sees a morally objectionable photo, his limbic system lights up. This is what Kiehl calls the "emotional circuit," involving the orbital cortex above the eyes and the amygdala deep in the brain. But Kiehl says when psychopaths like Dugan see the KKK picture, their emotional circuit does not engage in the same way.
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      Giuliano Musacchio on 01 Mar 12
       
      Look back on notes taken during documentary on the Brain, similar information and tests
  • He notes that alcoholics have brain abnormalities. Do we give them a pass if they kill someone while driving drunk?
  • Neuroscience and neuroimaging is going to change the whole philosophy about how we punish and how we decide who to incapacitate and how we decide how to deal with people
  • Just like DNA, he believes brain scans will eventually be standard fare. And that, he and others say, could upend our notions of culpability, crime and punishment.
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      Giuliano Musacchio on 01 Mar 12
       
      This articles is very intriguing and similar to a part of the Brain documentary... This website seems credible because their is no advertisement, this is a well known new station and it is partners with pbs, which is a reliable source when it comes to news stories. This website is also very easy to contact.
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Psychopathy: A misunderstood personality disorder - 0 views

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  • "Psychopathy has long been assumed to be a single personality disorder. However, there is increasing evidence that it is a confluence of several different personality traits,"
  • Many psychologists also assume that psychopathy is inalterable -- once a psychopath, always a psychopath.
  • Recent empirical work suggests that youth and adults with high scores on measures of psychopathy can show reduced violent and other criminal behavior after intensive treatment.
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  • psychopathy appears to be a complex, multifaceted condition marked by blends of personality traits reflecting differing levels of disinhibition, boldness, and meanness.
  • "psychopaths" do not appear different in kind from other people, or inalterably dangerous,"
  • "In short, research on psychopathy has evolved to a level that it can greatly improve on the current, 'one size fits all' policy approach,"
    • Giuliano Musacchio
      Giuliano Musacchio on 01 Mar 12
       
      I believe this article can be useful during my research because it specifies that psychopaths are normally categorized the same way, but this can give us a different opinion and how they really are. As the author states, many people interpret this the wrong way, and these people are often misunderstood.  This website seems credible because, the last time it has been updated was today, so it is used frequently. ScienceDaily is one of the Internet's most popular science news web sites. Since starting in 1995, the award-winning site has earned the loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, educators and the general public around the world. Also the editorial staff is qualified and specified. 
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