This document discusses psychopathy and provides information about what causes a person to develop psychopathic tendencies. It summarizes that psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by lack of empathy and conscience. Some individuals may have a genetic predisposition, while for others psychopathy can develop due to childhood experiences like a hostile or emotionally neglectful environment. Brain imaging studies have found deficiencies in the neural activity and brain matter of psychopathic individuals, particularly in areas responsible for emotional and social processing.

2.  Introduction
 Previous Studies
 Rationale
 Methodology
 Findings
 Conclusion
 Learnt Lessons
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3. What is Psychopathy?
 Complex personality disorder
 Absence of emotional connections with cognition
 Psychopaths are without conscience

4. Manipulation Lack of Concern Irresponsibility
Characteristics

5. Impulsivity Lack of Empathy Egotism

6. What causes a person to be
a psychopath
 Sociopaths, are made through life's
experiences, with some sociopaths have a
genetic predisposition that means life's
everyday experiences will provide the stimuli
to active the triggers for sociopathy
 Other sociopaths do not have this genetic
inclination, they were born ordinary, but have
had strong negative stimuli that forced the
brain into the coping mechanisms of
sociopathy by the activation of these triggers.

7. What Triggers psychopathy?
The triggers are :
 Hostile environment
 Emotional neglect
 Alienation/ lack of acceptance

8.  The majority of evidence with sociopathy is that at very
early ages, they experienced conditions, usually
abusive, such that they learned that normal social
interaction led them to be punished.
 However, it's complex. Not everybody who experiences
these conditions gets a Cluster B personality disorder,
let alone actual sociopathy. Even severe abuse leaves a
lot of people fairly normal and neurotypical.

9.  Developed by Dr. Robert Hare in 1991
 Based on two factors:
1. Emotional Detachment 2. Antisocial Behavior
 Diagnostic instrument for psychopathy
Psychopathy Checklist PCL
http://vistriai.com/psychopathtest/

11. Psychopathy brain scan
Psychologists and
neurologists use brain
imaging to analyze
psychopathy, where
patients show deficiencies
in their neural activity and
brain matter. Dysfunction
of emotional and social
processing brain parts
causes psychopathy.

12. Normalvs.PsychopathicBrains

13. Conclusion
 Dysfunction of emotional and social
processing brain parts causes psychopathy.

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