Flash and you will miss it.
If you suspect that someone is a psychopath, just look at my eyes, experts advise.
In a 2018 studyThe researchers from Cardiff and Swansea universities investigated the effect of “unpleasant” images, such as mutilated bodies and threatening dogs, in criminals who are psychopaths and those who are not.
They discovered that when looking at the images, the eyes of the psychopaths had an “unusual reaction”: they did not experience the extension of the students.
Meanwhile, the students of the non -psychopathic criminals did it and dilated when looking at heartbreaking images, which is a natural response.
“Our findings provide physical evidence of an emotional deficit common to psychopathic criminals,” the main author Dr. Dan Burley, of the School of Psychology of the University of Cardiff, Said at that time.
“The pupil is known that the long leg is an indicator of the excitation of a person,” Burley explained. “The usual student dilates when an image surprises us or scares us. The fact that the normal physiological response to the threat is reduced in psychopathic criminals provides us with an obvious physical marker for this condition.”
This look in the eyes is known as a “psychopathic look” or “psychopathic eyes”, which reflects an insensitive and withdrawn response when looking at something that most people would be alarming.
However, the researchers were stunned to discover that the students of the royal psychopaths were expanding when observing positive and optimistic images, showing a “normal” response similar to those of non -psychopaths.
These findings suggest that psychopathy is not directly related to a difficulty that responds to emotion, but rather a specific reactivity to threatening information.
“Many psychopathic criminals seem to be bold, safe and can act in a cold way. It is much easier to act bold if you have no feelings of fear, and be cold blood if there is no emotion to interpose in the path of the act,” said Professor Robert Snowden of the University of Cardiff, who supervised the research, he explained.
Professor Nicola Gray, a clinical and forensic psychologist at the University of Swansea, who provided clinical supervision for the project, added: “This is one of the first times that we have objective, physiological and an emotional deficit evidence that supports the offensive behavior of psychopathic criminals that does not depend on invasive methods or spending equipment.”
“We hope to develop this methodology to help with clinical evaluation and intervention in criminal populations.”
Some of the infamous people considered psychopaths include serial killers Ted Bundy, Fred West and Richard Ramírez.
It cannot be diagnosed as a psychopath, however, because it is not a diagnosis. “Psychopathy can only be evaluated and evaluated using the revised psychopathy verification list (PCL-R),” Dr. David Tzall, a licensed psychologist, Psychcentral countedexplaining that many confuse psychopathy and antisocial personality (ASPD) disorder.
“They are similar in scope but different in terms of details,” he said. “ASPD is a diagnostic personality disorder characterized by a generalized pattern or contempt for the rights of ethers, the security of tones and ethers, impulse and socially accepted norms and rules and rules.”
Meanwhile, “psychopathy is a personality construction that describes a set of interpersonal, affective and behavioral features that are similar to those observed in ASPD.”
