Tuesday, June 23, 2015

In which careers do you find the most psychopaths?

Personally, I would have put Clergy (any kind of religious leader) and Politicians at the top of the list, with Police closely following.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/here-are-the-10-careers-with-the-most-psychopaths/

EXCERPT:  Are you a psychopath? Happens to the best of us. James Fallon, a neuroscientist studying Alzheimer's effects on the brain, accidentally discovered that he was a psychopath and then he wrote a book about the experience. Fallon, like most people with psychopathic brains, wasn't a violent person or a serial killer. But after discovering his brain pathology, he began interviewing friends, relatives and loved ones to see if there had been signs of psychopathy in his behavior all along. It turned out there were plenty. The diagnosis befuddled Fallon, but made total sense to pretty much everyone else in his life. Just 1 percent of the overall population qualifies as psychopaths; in prison, that number skyrockets to 25 percent. Robert Hare developed the Hare Psychopathy Checklist in the 1980s, and it's since become a tool widely used for assessing and diagnosing the condition.
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