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| Just a bad child or A Psychopath? |
Can you tell that Who is a Successful Predator? A successful predator is the not just the one who kills for living but the one who knows very well that who its preys are and where they are found in the first place. To succeed in hunting, a successful predator detects the weakness in its prey quickly, alienates the prey from others tactically, kills it mercilessly, satisfies its hunger peacefully and leaves behind the carcass calmly.
Finding a herd of preys, picking a vulnerability, devising a strategy, setting an ambush and showing no mercy for the preys are the per-requisite for becoming a good predator in the wildness which is filled with multiple predators who continuously compete over the escaping preys. For both predators and preys, it always comes down to living and dying. Hence, it's a never-ending story of the whole wildlife on land, in sky and inside water.
We can easily and quickly identify the wild predators just by looking at their physical features, traits and characteristics like extremely acute sensory organs, muscular limbs, wider jaws, sharper teeth, retractable claws and camouflage. By knowing their characteristics and key behavioral patterns, we can manage to stay away from them and save our lives. Our remote ancestors achieved the same and that’s why we are here.
What if you face a predator putting on a mask of a human? What if an ordinary looking individual turns out to be an abuser or a criminal? Can you identify such individual who might be moving around you in the same room at present? How quickly and accurately you can identify such social predators? Until you don’t know what kind of the person is exactly, these questions cannot be answered at all.
Like cruel, cunning and calculative predators; a very few of us are quite untruthful, unethical, deceptive, careless, cruel, irresponsible, impulsive, emotionally detached and also lacking remorse, guilt or empathy. An individual having this serious anti-social personality disorder (ASPD) is called as a Psychopath (Psycho). Fundamentally, the extreme psychopaths view other individuals as their preys, pawns, puppets or slaves.
Basically, what makes an individual an extreme psychopath is higher sensitivity towards rewards and lesser or complete lack of sensitivity towards pains, sufferings and distress in others which include both humans and non-humans. Deep inside their brains, Amygdala (emotional center) shows lesser or no electrical activities when psychopaths are exposed to emotional stimulus especially the fearful ones.
Although only 1 individual out of every 100 person is a psychopath, psychopaths make upto 25% of prison population in North America. Thus every psychopath isn't always a murderer or a serial killer but all psychopaths are involved in anti-social activities, actions and decisions which pose serious threats to individuals, groups, families or communities they belong to or they stare at as predators.
Following are the body language clues given by extreme psychopaths:
1) They don't give emotional/affective reactions to situations, scenes and also the words which induce emotions in others.
2) They are very bad or worst in mimicking the emotional facial expressions that are seen on faces of other individuals.
3) They try to find a weakness or a vulnerability in other individuals, by carefully watching them for several days.
4) They keep on adding up anger inside themselves for many days and suddenly break down into abuse and violence.
5) They act to express one emotion on behalf of the other i. e. a smile or a scorn on behalf of a sad face.
6) They express no timidity, fear, shame, shyness, stress and nervousness through their body language.
7) They touch to dominate, control or hurt others than empathizing them in stress, pain or suffering.
8) They are highly accurate and quick in picking fear on the faces of other individuals.
9) They appear very charming, confident, bold, attractive and persuasive publicly.
10) They are very poor and sloppy in picking negative emotion like sadness.
11) They stare for a very long time without any emotions on their faces.
12) They appear very calm and cool while facing stressful situations.
13) They don't feel the emotions but they do try to act like they do.
14) They make no or a very few head movements while talking.
15) They appear bored in absence of any arousing activities.
16) They mostly speak very smoothly and in neutral tone.
17) They tactically separate their preys from the others.
18) They flirt with the individuals of opposite genders.
19) They express no anxiety for the sad individuals.
20) They do make a very good first impression.
Although both narcissist and psychopath share some common behavioral traits, a psychopath is mostly born but a narcissist and a sociopath is mostly made. While narcissists demand a great amount of attention and special treatment due extremely higher sense of self-worth, psychopaths seek enormous amount of power, control and prestige. They also have the 'Final Solutions' for serious social issues due to over-generalization of people.
Although psychopaths feel the physical pain themselves, they don't express emotions even while watching a scene which normally causes the distress in all other individuals at varying levels or upsets their stomachs at worst. Laws, morals values, rules, regulations and rights of others are barriers on the path of achieving success, dominance, power and wealth for psychopaths in the first place so they disregard them.
Following are the overall behavioral characteristics, patterns and clues of extremely psychopathic individuals:
1) They are involved in promiscuous sexual relations or have multiple sex partners (outside marital/committed relation).
2) They have the egocentricity or the extremely higher sense of self-worth in comparison to all other individuals.
3) They have very poor or lack of control over their behaviors due to absence of fear about the consequences.
4) They are very glib individuals who have a shallow or superficial charm. They are highly intelligent.
5) They lack the kind of emotional intensity, depth and vividity which most of us experience.
6) They are naturally prone to boredom. Also, they can’t hold frustration for a long time.
7) They are the pathological liars and they possess mastery in deceiving the others.
8) They have a parasitic lifestyle i. e. they do keep on sucking others for living.
9) They are the con-artists, irregular, insincere and unproductive in work lives.
10) They are very irresponsible so they easily get away with wrongdoings.
11) They have a history of theft, bullying or setting fire in early childhood.
12) They have a poor sense about What is wrong and What is right.
13) They take credit for the work that others have done for them.
14) They are very careless about the well-being about of others.
15) Their behavior changes drastically after establishing rapport.
16) They dump individuals after their need(s) is (not) fulfilled.
17) They lack realistic and long-term plans in their own lives.
18) They inflict pain and harm to animals in early childhood.
19) They manipulate others into fulfilling their own desires.
20) They fail to establish strong and long-lasting relations.
21) They are extremely bold and risk-taking individuals.
22) They over-admire somebody in very first meeting.
23) They put blame on others for their own failures.
24) They lack intellectual depth in their thoughts.
25) They like to see other individuals in trouble.
Generally, males are known to be extremely psychopathic by most, due to high levels of testosterone. However, a very few percentage of females too are extremely psychopathic. Female psychopaths are mostly involved in love bombing, gaslighting, pretending, playing victim card, developing relationship with victims, deceiving, insulting and abusing their partners, gossiping excessively and excluding or forming alliances against their victims.
All extreme psychopaths always don’t end up behind the bars but they have a greatest potential of devising, planning for and inflicting serious and permanent damages to individuals, families, groups, communities, entire humanity and also its overall future if they are allowed to behave, operate, manipulate and make decisions as they like to which lack conscience, morality, responsibility, empathy and remorse.
What sets apart an empathetic and pro-social individual from a psychopath is the great sense of consequences if a individual is hurt or if a rule is broken etc. The psychopaths have poor or lack of connectivity between Amygdala (emotional center for fear and anxiety) and Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) which is responsible for social and emotional/affective decision-making (executive) functions such as inducing empathy and guilt.
Unlike the wild yet easily identifiable predators from a distance, the looks, appearance and impression can be deceptive in human world. There are quite chances that you face a psychopath in your entire life at least once or multiple times. Perhaps, you might end up falling into a trap set by a psychopath.
Psychopathy in children can be detected at an early age, as early as 3rd year of age. So if you are a parent, a custodian and a caretaker then you must pay very close attention to your own children's social behavior, actions and activities around other children. Children born to the narcissistic parents can turn into psychopaths.
Almost everybody of us share at least one or multiple behavioral traits out of above 25 behavioral traits/clues of the extreme psychopaths so the next great questions are How one can find if a person is a psychopath (psycho)? and How psychopathic the person is exactly?
If you are really interested, curious or even anxious to know the same then you can use this online tool to find if an individual is psychopathic and how much psychopathic he/she is exactly. If the score goes above 30 then it's a truly danger sign and a wakeup call.
By the way, there are some common or shared behavioral and psychological traits among Narcissists, Sociopaths and Psychopaths. Also, sociopaths are often called as angry psychopaths.
[Special Note: World's renowned expert in Psychopathy, Canadian forensic psychologist and professor emeritus of University of British Columbia Dr. Robert D. Hare created the checklist (PCL-R) with 20 different traits put under the same to decide the total psychopathic score.]
Related Articles:
1) Body Language of Extreme Narcissist 2) The Face of Liar(?) 3) Confident Body Language 4) Truth about Lying 5) Are you a 'flying' terrorist? 6) Fear Factor 7) Body Image and Social Communication 8) Body Language of James Bond 9) Amygdala Hijack: Irrational Physical Reactions
Finding a herd of preys, picking a vulnerability, devising a strategy, setting an ambush and showing no mercy for the preys are the per-requisite for becoming a good predator in the wildness which is filled with multiple predators who continuously compete over the escaping preys. For both predators and preys, it always comes down to living and dying. Hence, it's a never-ending story of the whole wildlife on land, in sky and inside water.
We can easily and quickly identify the wild predators just by looking at their physical features, traits and characteristics like extremely acute sensory organs, muscular limbs, wider jaws, sharper teeth, retractable claws and camouflage. By knowing their characteristics and key behavioral patterns, we can manage to stay away from them and save our lives. Our remote ancestors achieved the same and that’s why we are here.
What if you face a predator putting on a mask of a human? What if an ordinary looking individual turns out to be an abuser or a criminal? Can you identify such individual who might be moving around you in the same room at present? How quickly and accurately you can identify such social predators? Until you don’t know what kind of the person is exactly, these questions cannot be answered at all.
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| Empathy is the critical pro-social quality. (Image Courtesy: American Psychological Association) |
Like cruel, cunning and calculative predators; a very few of us are quite untruthful, unethical, deceptive, careless, cruel, irresponsible, impulsive, emotionally detached and also lacking remorse, guilt or empathy. An individual having this serious anti-social personality disorder (ASPD) is called as a Psychopath (Psycho). Fundamentally, the extreme psychopaths view other individuals as their preys, pawns, puppets or slaves.
Basically, what makes an individual an extreme psychopath is higher sensitivity towards rewards and lesser or complete lack of sensitivity towards pains, sufferings and distress in others which include both humans and non-humans. Deep inside their brains, Amygdala (emotional center) shows lesser or no electrical activities when psychopaths are exposed to emotional stimulus especially the fearful ones.
Although only 1 individual out of every 100 person is a psychopath, psychopaths make upto 25% of prison population in North America. Thus every psychopath isn't always a murderer or a serial killer but all psychopaths are involved in anti-social activities, actions and decisions which pose serious threats to individuals, groups, families or communities they belong to or they stare at as predators.
Following are the body language clues given by extreme psychopaths:
1) They don't give emotional/affective reactions to situations, scenes and also the words which induce emotions in others.
2) They are very bad or worst in mimicking the emotional facial expressions that are seen on faces of other individuals.
3) They try to find a weakness or a vulnerability in other individuals, by carefully watching them for several days.
4) They keep on adding up anger inside themselves for many days and suddenly break down into abuse and violence.
5) They act to express one emotion on behalf of the other i. e. a smile or a scorn on behalf of a sad face.
6) They express no timidity, fear, shame, shyness, stress and nervousness through their body language.
7) They touch to dominate, control or hurt others than empathizing them in stress, pain or suffering.
8) They are highly accurate and quick in picking fear on the faces of other individuals.
9) They appear very charming, confident, bold, attractive and persuasive publicly.
10) They are very poor and sloppy in picking negative emotion like sadness.
11) They stare for a very long time without any emotions on their faces.
12) They appear very calm and cool while facing stressful situations.
13) They don't feel the emotions but they do try to act like they do.
14) They make no or a very few head movements while talking.
15) They appear bored in absence of any arousing activities.
16) They mostly speak very smoothly and in neutral tone.
17) They tactically separate their preys from the others.
18) They flirt with the individuals of opposite genders.
19) They express no anxiety for the sad individuals.
20) They do make a very good first impression.
Although both narcissist and psychopath share some common behavioral traits, a psychopath is mostly born but a narcissist and a sociopath is mostly made. While narcissists demand a great amount of attention and special treatment due extremely higher sense of self-worth, psychopaths seek enormous amount of power, control and prestige. They also have the 'Final Solutions' for serious social issues due to over-generalization of people.
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| Predatory Stare is common among psychopathic killers. |
Although psychopaths feel the physical pain themselves, they don't express emotions even while watching a scene which normally causes the distress in all other individuals at varying levels or upsets their stomachs at worst. Laws, morals values, rules, regulations and rights of others are barriers on the path of achieving success, dominance, power and wealth for psychopaths in the first place so they disregard them.
Following are the overall behavioral characteristics, patterns and clues of extremely psychopathic individuals:
1) They are involved in promiscuous sexual relations or have multiple sex partners (outside marital/committed relation).
2) They have the egocentricity or the extremely higher sense of self-worth in comparison to all other individuals.
3) They have very poor or lack of control over their behaviors due to absence of fear about the consequences.
4) They are very glib individuals who have a shallow or superficial charm. They are highly intelligent.
5) They lack the kind of emotional intensity, depth and vividity which most of us experience.
6) They are naturally prone to boredom. Also, they can’t hold frustration for a long time.
7) They are the pathological liars and they possess mastery in deceiving the others.
8) They have a parasitic lifestyle i. e. they do keep on sucking others for living.
9) They are the con-artists, irregular, insincere and unproductive in work lives.
10) They are very irresponsible so they easily get away with wrongdoings.
11) They have a history of theft, bullying or setting fire in early childhood.
12) They have a poor sense about What is wrong and What is right.
13) They take credit for the work that others have done for them.
14) They are very careless about the well-being about of others.
15) Their behavior changes drastically after establishing rapport.
16) They dump individuals after their need(s) is (not) fulfilled.
17) They lack realistic and long-term plans in their own lives.
18) They inflict pain and harm to animals in early childhood.
19) They manipulate others into fulfilling their own desires.
20) They fail to establish strong and long-lasting relations.
21) They are extremely bold and risk-taking individuals.
22) They over-admire somebody in very first meeting.
23) They put blame on others for their own failures.
24) They lack intellectual depth in their thoughts.
25) They like to see other individuals in trouble.
Generally, males are known to be extremely psychopathic by most, due to high levels of testosterone. However, a very few percentage of females too are extremely psychopathic. Female psychopaths are mostly involved in love bombing, gaslighting, pretending, playing victim card, developing relationship with victims, deceiving, insulting and abusing their partners, gossiping excessively and excluding or forming alliances against their victims.
All extreme psychopaths always don’t end up behind the bars but they have a greatest potential of devising, planning for and inflicting serious and permanent damages to individuals, families, groups, communities, entire humanity and also its overall future if they are allowed to behave, operate, manipulate and make decisions as they like to which lack conscience, morality, responsibility, empathy and remorse.
"Every psychopath is a (extreme) narcissist but not every (extreme) narcissist is a psychopath."
Clinical psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula
(World leading expert on Narcissism)
Clinical psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula
(World leading expert on Narcissism)
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Unlike the wild yet easily identifiable predators from a distance, the looks, appearance and impression can be deceptive in human world. There are quite chances that you face a psychopath in your entire life at least once or multiple times. Perhaps, you might end up falling into a trap set by a psychopath.
Psychopathy in children can be detected at an early age, as early as 3rd year of age. So if you are a parent, a custodian and a caretaker then you must pay very close attention to your own children's social behavior, actions and activities around other children. Children born to the narcissistic parents can turn into psychopaths.
Almost everybody of us share at least one or multiple behavioral traits out of above 25 behavioral traits/clues of the extreme psychopaths so the next great questions are How one can find if a person is a psychopath (psycho)? and How psychopathic the person is exactly?
If you are really interested, curious or even anxious to know the same then you can use this online tool to find if an individual is psychopathic and how much psychopathic he/she is exactly. If the score goes above 30 then it's a truly danger sign and a wakeup call.
By the way, there are some common or shared behavioral and psychological traits among Narcissists, Sociopaths and Psychopaths. Also, sociopaths are often called as angry psychopaths.
[Special Note: World's renowned expert in Psychopathy, Canadian forensic psychologist and professor emeritus of University of British Columbia Dr. Robert D. Hare created the checklist (PCL-R) with 20 different traits put under the same to decide the total psychopathic score.]
Related Articles:
1) Body Language of Extreme Narcissist 2) The Face of Liar(?) 3) Confident Body Language 4) Truth about Lying 5) Are you a 'flying' terrorist? 6) Fear Factor 7) Body Image and Social Communication 8) Body Language of James Bond 9) Amygdala Hijack: Irrational Physical Reactions
Phew, a brilliant detailed article. Now, you have subtly conditioned me to look for these traits, Sir!
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