Quote by T. Rivers, Clarence

“while psychopathy is said to be caused primarily by genetic factors, sociopathy is said to be the result of psycho-social and environmental ones.”

— T. Rivers, Clarence

The physical basis for sociopathy is approximately 50 percent inheritable, which sounds more dramatic than it probably is, because most personality characteristics that psychologists…

— Martha Stout

“Because psychopathy is difficult to diagnose, but often subject to public scrutiny, it’s actually often confused with other personality disorders with which it shares…

— T. Rivers, Clarence

“As Robert Hare, the world’s leading expert on psychopathy has stated, psychopaths are “intra-species predators.” They have the “capacity to do great harm, repeatedly,…

— Joe Navarro

“Many people believe that all psychopaths are aggressive individuals with violent tendencies, and that all of them are criminals capable of doing horrendous crimes.…

— T. Rivers, Clarence

“Psychopathy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their…

— Geoffrey Miller

“Whether you know it or not, each and every day your life is touched by the effects of psychopathy on our world.”

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

“In the macrosocial phenomenon we shall later call “pathocracy”, a certain hereditary anomaly isolated as “essential psychopathy” is catalytically and causatively essential for the…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

“In other words, psychopathy is being recognized as a more or less different type of human.”

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

“The high incidence of sociopathy in human society has a profound effect on the rest of us who must live on this planet, too,…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads around, because…

— Martha Stout

People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception.

— Simon Baron-Cohen