The Psychopathy Check List

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Policing is inherently races that the institution itself is rotten to the core. The bad ones are self selecting to go into a profession where they can be bad asses and lord it over people because they got a badge and a gun, what are you going to do? And maybe these are the dark tryad people. Or if nothing else, maybe they need the psychopathy check list to take before they start training,. just to weed em out.

In this dialogue, based on the new edition of his highly acclaimed bestseller (over 5 million copies sold in over 40 languages), Robert Cialdini — New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion — explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically in business and everyday settings. Shermer and Cialdini discuss: Cialdini’s Universal Principles of Influence and 7 Principles of Persuasion, pluralistic ignorance, free will/determinism, cults, conformity, #BLM, #metoo, antiracism, social justice, and human rights. How rational are humans? Do we default to truth and naturally believe what people tell us? Are we natural-born skeptics or natural-born sheep?