The world would still have its share of bullies, cheats, freeloaders, free riders, and occasional psychopaths.
Kiehl says psychopaths are a little like people with very low IQs who are not fully responsible for their actions.
When the two researchers probed the prisoners' abilities on the general test, they discovered that the psychopaths did just as well-or just as poorly, if you like-as everyone else.
"Well, you know what they say about psychopaths," I said.
Personally, I don't like the way Bob Hare talks about psychopaths almost as if they are a different species.
Likewise, in 2004, researchers at the University of British Columbia reacted to similar findings and created a test to help firms detect "corporate psychopaths" within their ranks.
A new study found that many people who befriend their former lovers are narcissists and psychopaths.
But when I tell them I feel remorse, they say psychopaths pretend to be remorseful when they're not.
The capsule had made the psychopaths worse.
In particular, the two researchers thought that psychopaths might not possess the instinctive grasp of social contracts-the rules that govern obligations-that other people have.
They are then kidnapped by a gang of psychopaths who have just escaped from prison.
And so the urgent question became, how could psychopaths be cured?
Past work has established that psychopaths have normal levels of intelligence (they are only rarely Hannibal Lecter-like geniuses).
Most psychopaths are delusional.
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