Dr Ermer and Dr Kiehl wanted to know how psychopaths would fare at this task.
They were The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, and Seven Psychopaths.
The answer was, precisely, psychopaths: indifferent to others, incapable of guilt, exclusively devoted to their own interests.
He will compete against The Sapphires star Chris O'Dowd and Seven Psychopaths writer and director Martin McDonagh.
Psychopaths know at a cognitive level what is right and what is wrong, but they don't feel it.
This new result suggests that in psychopaths these modules have been switched off.
There are no psychopaths or serial killers involved (as best we can tell).
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Bounced back and forth among murderers and psychopaths, he has some remarkable adventures and learns about the past in tiny increments.
Brain scans of psychopaths show areas of the brain that govern emotion in psychopaths aren't as active as a normal adult's.
Psychopaths are psychotic: they suffer from delusions and hallucinations, and often have a difficult time functioning in society as a result.
For problems cast as social contracts or as questions of risk avoidance, by contrast, non-psychopaths got it right about 70% of the time.
All of these early influences impair brain structure and function, and they contribute to the brain impairments we find in criminals and psychopaths in later life.
With turmoil in the markets and rapid changes across the corporate landscape, these are golden times for cold, career opportunists like psychopaths, psychologists say.
In 2009, Yaling Yang, Robert Schug and I conducted structural brain scans on 27 psychopaths whom we had found in temporary-employment agencies in Los Angeles.
Psychopaths don't vary their behavior: They are hardwired for pathological impulses.
This development stirs multiple fears, but one that immediately comes to mind is the possibility of tuning down moral apprehension even lower and creating synthetic psychopaths.
If it does, such an advantage probably pertains only when psychopaths are in the minority (a state of affairs known to biologists as a balanced polymorphism).
Mr Eldergill said many psychopaths go through life committing anti-social behaviour but no serious crimes and it was impossible to predict those who were a real threat to the public.
Germans even called traders psychopaths recently in Der Spiegel.
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New research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that presidents and psychopaths share a psychological trait that may shed light on what made Teddy such a unique character.
We found that, compared with 32 normal people in a control group, psychopaths had an 18% smaller amygdala, which is critical for emotions like fear and is part of the neural circuitry underlying moral decision-making.
The vast majority of prisoners in any country are not violent criminals or dangerous psychopaths, but young men who have committed a non-violent property crime, or got into some relatively minor scrape with the law.
Brady alleges that on 30 September last year, staff wearing riot gear dragged him from his former ward to the hospital's personality disorder unit - "a dumping ground for psychopaths" - injuring his wrist in the process.
These are questions I have still not seen answered, much as I have not seen compelling data to show that the millions upon millions of video game players and viewers of film and television have been turned into psychopaths.
Add that to the fact that science now is questioning whether there is any difference at all between sociopaths and psychopaths, and that those with narcissistic personality disorder also have some of the same characteristics (an inability to care about anyone but themselves), it means that "evil" is all around us, even at work.
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