CrowdScience - Am I a psychopath?
One CrowdScience listener finds herself unconcerned about much of the world’s problems, it leaves her wondering: am I a psychopath?
Inspired by a previous episode on empathy, this listener asked is it true that psychopaths don’t empathise and what are the character traits of psychopathy?
Marnie Chesterton talks with a diagnosed pro-social psychopath to find out.
She also pays a visit to the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and gets into an MRI scanner to discover what is happening in her brain when she empathises.
Studies suggest around 1 percent of the general population exhibit traits associated with psychopathy and that rises to 3-4 percent in the world of business. But is this really the case?
Why is there so much stigma associated with psychopathy and do psychopaths even exist or is it just a convenient term to label those whose emotional range sits outside of the “norm”?
Presented by Marnie Chesterton and produced by Caroline Steel for the BBC World Service.
Guests: Julia Shaw Jim Fallon Valeria Gazzola Kalliopi Ioumpa
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Published on Friday, 23rd July 2021.
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