How Psychopaths Process Pain Could Explain Their Lack of Empathy

The only victim bears the greatest of the homeless while the killer's line of resentment runs wild without that torrent of bile c...

How Psychopaths Process Pain Could Explain Their Lack of Empathy

Psychopathy has long been associated with murderers, notorious criminals, and the griping true crime stories that dominate Netflix documentaries.

Empathy, that human capacity that manifests itself as an immediate and unconscious reaction, of emotional connection with other individuals; that allows us to recognize, share and understand the feelings and moods of other human beings; that understanding, that active listening, that attempt not to judge others to better understand what is happening, and to be able to understand the point of view of the other, to get in their place, to connect w…