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The Anatomy of Violence
Adrian Rain is the neuroscientist psychologist who's studied the brains of psychopaths on death row, murders. He hired dozens of temp workers in Los Angeles and found that sure enough, when he gave them all the tests for psychopathy, it's the sort of gold standard measure. There were psychopaths among the temps at a rate about three times the average in the regular population. So now we had a group of psychopaths that had never been in prison. Had any trouble with law. And they all confessed to armed robberies, rapes, even murders. They really are psychopaths and they're really out there and he's got the tools to study them.
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