Antisocial personality disorder

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    The main question of this book is “why I have a conscience?” This book talks about how 1 and 25 people are considered a sociopath. A sociopath is defined as a person without a conscience someone. So that one out of 25 people is roughly 4% of Americans that can be or have been diagnosed as sociopath. sociopath have at least one of 3 of different characteristics failure to conform to social norms deceitfulness manipulativeness, sociopaths are have at least three of the following characteristics:…

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    killers are sociopaths and or psychotic. Under the psychological microscope, Sociopath and psychopaths are considered to be the same by nature, they both exhibit antisocial behavior, but they’re both extremely different. Psychopathy, used to describe a psychotic person, is a mental disorder in which an individual manifest amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, Etc. Now a…

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    The tool of psychological profiling has gained a lot of notoriety both in fictional media as well as real life for its ability to aid in the capture of dangerous psychopathic serial killers. This type of offender is unique when compared to other criminals because financial motive is usually not the primary reason for murder. This is because what they seek to attain is psychological and sexual gratification with certain types. (LaBrode, 2007) Ultimately, why they all kill is to experience power…

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    A child can be born with a genetic disorder but its the mothers love and care that impacts a child 's development. Nurturing a child early on in life may aid the child with the development of a larger hippocampus, the region of the brain responsible for learning, memory and, stress. Research has shown that early maternal support has had a successful effect on young children. A connection was found between early social experiences and the volume of the amygdala, which is responsible for the…

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    Othello Syndrome is morbid or delusional jealousy. It is a mental illness where people believe their partner is being unfaithful without any actual proof. This disease makes people obsessive and delusional with false beliefs based on incorrect inferences about external realities. Jealousy is caused by greed and personal perspective which can result in psychological, emotional and even physical effects. It is human nature to feel jealous but it can never take over humans lives, for this emotion…

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    There are those who think that people who do some type of heinous act are one of the same; driven by the same reason and carry out the action in similar ways. There are those who think that each criminal has a different reasoning for why they do what they do, whether it be a justified reason or not. On the subject of serial killers, people’s thought processes are the same; they are either evenly matched, compelled by the same motive, or they are completely different people, moved by different…

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    109). We must encourage children to not be on technology so often and spend time outdoors with friends and family. It will actually help children be more social by surrounding themselves with people, instead of watching a TV show that can make them antisocial and affect them negatively. The children are the future, which is why they must be raised to have manners and respect for others. As the adults, we must also be responsible examples and show the children how they must act in the real…

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    In the play Richard the third by William Shakespeare a war has just finished, and two houses are entering a time of peace with one, and other. Yet Richard is strongly opposed to these times of peace that the end of the war has brought about due to his deformed physical nature, and his psychopathic tendencies Richard despises this time of peace, and he is determined to ruin it for everyone. Richard is quite brilliant with his manipulation of people without letting on the slightest clue as to what…

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    In “The Lottery” there are many different literary devices we can figure out in the specific storyline of the lottery and in its themes. “The Lottery” focuses on an extremely heavy amount of suspicion between different social classes in the story. This suspense is a literary device that can be heavily seen through the story. There are many subtle hints that lead to a shocking conclusion that what these villagers do to each other every year is seen as a very old ritualistic tradition. Old man…

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    In Lucille Fletcher’s “The Hitchhiker,” readers learn that running away from problems does not solve ,them they just get worse. “ The Hitchhiker,” is a very scary story because it has scary sounds in the background. The whole story is about not running away from your problems. The Hitchhiker is really about trying to solve problems and then problems will get solved. The story is not too scary but it is creepy, Do not run away from problems solve them so they will be over with. “The…

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