this is what i don't get. my great grandfather's cousin, had 12 children. also probably a sociopath. what male has 12 children with a sociopath female ?
she lived in the town i live in. had many male kids. her father, Sivert Olsen, also 10 children. with 2 different women. they were neighbors as children.
this is what i don't get. my great grandfather's cousin, had 12 children. also probably a sociopath. what male has 12 children with a sociopath female ?
she lived in the town i live in. had many male kids. her father, Sivert Olsen, also 10 children. with 2 different women. they were neighbors as children.
How are they actually sociopaths?
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 were 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 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.
This is all i have learned from being involved in therapy with other people.
So it's up to some opinion? pretty weak. how do you measure it scientifically?
Thats the whole point of psychology. Its not concrete like other sciences. Its based purely on theory, but theory that can be somehow scientifically merited otherwise psychology would’ve never made itself into a mainstream social science studied by millions of people around the world.
Also its been said that psychopathy can also be assessed through neurological assessment. Like a brain scan can show dysfunction in the frontal lobe causing impuslivity and a lack of empathy. Or a brain tumor that can cause pathological patterns of behaviour and emotional distress. So psychology does have a fundamental use in a broad range of subjects. Not just the diagnosis and therapy of people. But also in the medical world and managing people who have serious impairment because of brain injury, brain cancer or other types of neurological issues.
I'm not saying it's not useful to understand people outward behavior, just don't pretend you really understand what is going on inside someones head.
You cannot measure someone's empathy, therefore you have no basis to say someone has low or high empathy.
I have a doctorate in psychiatry dumb fuck. You cant actually tell me that im wrong. My level of knowledge and experience far outweighs yours in every aspect of life.
