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Psychopaths and Empathy
Psychologists have been debating what causes psychopathy. One theory is that it's an emotional disorder, but a new study shows this isn't true. Psychopaths feel emotions like fear or empathy when they are primed to do so by other people and the environment around them. But if you don't know its existence, then all of a sudden you're going to get scared. This could explain why some pilots who would glory in aerial combat often came to grief because they ran out of fuel during WWII.