How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’

21 points by chocobean 14 hours ago on tildes | 2 comments

[OP] chocobean | 14 hours ago

People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us

From this research, which took her five years, Mitchell built a template of 20 attributes, , divided into four clusters, and 25 tactics that would identify a high-functioning persistent predatory personality type.

Cluster one includes

  • a need for control;
  • a grandiose sense of self;
  • pathological inner response to challenge;
  • vengefulness;
  • refusal to compromise.

Cluster two includes

  • being predatory or exploitative;
  • sadistic and cruel;
  • having a low regard for laws, agreements, social and moral codes;
  • no boundaries in sexual relationships;
  • unreasonable expectations of others.

Cluster three relates to the truth: D

  • Dark Personalities cultivate a façade of normality;
  • they are chameleon-like;
  • dishonest;
  • devious and manipulative; and
  • unwilling to accept responsibility for the negative impacts they cause.

Finally, cluster four is around the Dark Personality’s own interior life:

  • their emotions are acted and they do not experience affinity or the joy that comes with it;
  • they are callous and devoid of empathy;
  • unremorseful;
  • self-interested; and
  • brazen.

Kerry56 | 6 hours ago

Those clusters combine to describe Trump as well as I've ever seen.