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		Millennium on Jan 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wisdom from Psychopaths? I think the idea is to paint the psychopath mindset as being so utterly alien to humanity that even the emotional capacity of a dog would seem more familiar to us.

theorique on Jan 7, 2013 [–]

Yes, in popular accounts the nature of the psychopath, while charming, is also seen as both "reptilian" and rather cold.

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