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RicciaFluitans t1_jcjbm04 wrote

Reply to comment by Uptown-Dog in People with dark personality traits are better in finding novel ways to cause damage or harm others: Study reveals that people with more pronounced dark personality traits tend to have more malevolent creativity by DreamingForYouAlways

Hmmmm funny had the opposite experience. Thought/think instead that they were the most suffering from retardation, and cognitieve impairment due to their limited emotional spectrum and lack of mental growth. Always saw stupiditeit & evil going hand in hand.

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jdragun2 t1_jcjdy02 wrote

Yeah....no. First, retardation is no longer an accepted term. Second, psychopaths tend to have above average cognitive functioning in general, not impaired.

Lastly, their emotional spectrum is skewed, not necessarily limited. What is limited MAY be what provides what level of a given emotion.

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Sherpa2730 t1_jcjnkuc wrote

I'm going to have to disagree here.

Psychopathy is a developmental delay. It's a delay in the development of emotional intelligence and empathy.

You can avoid the word retardation if it offends you, but the actual fact of the matter is that psychopaths are behind in an essential facet of human cognitive function.

"Skewed not limited" damaged, not absent or suppressed?

Semantics. Part of your psyche doesn't function normally. If you don't like hearing it, then stop claiming publicly that part of your psyche doesn't function properly.

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