What makes you think they are psychopaths?
well, he was definitely one not her. they look like my great grandparents, ellen and magnus, his face a bit difficult to see here. ive seen other pics of them i saw this in the basement about a week ago
They had 10 children, 5 males and 5 women, all males were alcoholics. many sociopaths in my family
psychopathy is fake news, how do you measure it?
You measure psychopathy by the persons apparent lack of empathy. That’s according to psychologists. Measuring sociopathy is totally different.
what? you wire up an empathy meter to their head? how do you measure it?
I just responded to your question in an edit before I saw your question.
An example scenario. For instance to determine if somebody can be diagnosed with aspd(psychopathy or sociopathy but psychopathy in this case). Psychologists can use family, friends neighbours or work collegues as informants to observe there empathetic responses to certain things. This observation in the persons level of empathy regarding certain situations and actions can be reported back to psychologists to give the psychologists a concrete profile of the person.
Thats why in general psychopaths are constantly playing a false role of some kind. To distract or throw off the scent that there might be something abnormal about them.
In the psychological world there are both contracted informants(fully aware of there job to gather information on a client) or non contracted informants(Informants that are not given the role of gathering information of a person but instead are taken in to questioning by psychologists to gain information on the client this can be family friends or aquaintences)
The non contracted informants will be asked questions such as
“When the person has harmed somebody, do they usually express distress or are not bothered by it”
Obviously the answer to this question where they distressed or not cannot fully answer to whether the client is pathological. So they use more informants and ask more questions only to finally build a profile. Which they can use to diagnose then assess, manage and manipulate the person for therapeutic and rehabilitation purposes.
Because god knows that you don’t want to be clinically evaluated as a psychopath or any other axis 1 or axis 2 disorders. Diagnoses of psychopath can be pretty shitty and can have no positive effect at all.
People usually want to appear psychopathic because they are neurotic and infact deep down are plagued by anxiety. Its completely different from actual psychopaths.
This is all i have learned from being involved in therapy with other people.