You know you are talking to a psychopath when ...

Feb 23, 2012 12:21

While at mishymoocow's place on Tuesday, read Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, a highly readable, and often amusing, lay encounter with madness and dealing with madness.

Some of it, however, is chilling. Such as the story of a researcher interviewing a psychopath and showing him photos of expressions of fear. His response:
I don't know what that expression is, but it is the one people make just before I kill them.
That would be a case of zero empathy then.

books, life, psych

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