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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Psychopaths and the Game Theory of Psychology

There can be pretty wild cultural differences from place to place. I asked lots of the psychopath experts who saidsit is a chinese psychopath different from a american psychopath? And like, we don't have en enough data on this. There's some initial studies that are being conducted this way, but a lot of the focus is on western psychopaths. It's crucial, i think, to understand this, because it disentangles the aspects of what's actually happening on the nerological level from the cultural level. If you apply the wrong tool to a certain problem, you can actually make it worse.

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