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#647 James Fallon: Psychopathy, Personality Disorders, Brain Scans, and the Nature-Nurture Debate

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Is There Any Evolutionary Explanation for Psychopaths?

Psychopaths tend to be in leadership roles. One of the main traits for psychopaths is called fearless dominance. They're not driven by fear, so they make very cold hearted decisions. The highest rate of psychopathy is in journalism. And with social media, this where you find psycopas well. Is this a good thing? A you know, most of us said say no. But if you want to dominate a society, say no, that's good. You see, political group likes lying, and we don't mind lying because we're going to change the world. We'd rape, we'd murder; it depends on whose ox gets gored. Cause who's

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