Posted by morgan miller on August 27, 2010, at 0:48:19
In reply to Re: ABC Nightline Prime: Secrets of the mind » morgan miller, posted by sigismund on August 27, 2010, at 0:08:15
> >Towards the end, a neuroscientist talks about what he believes prevented him from developing a psychopathic personality. It is something I often emphasize here and I think you also strongly believe in.
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> Morgan, I can't guess. Love? insight?
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> I won't get to see it.
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> What is it?It's love. He said he believes that having a very loving, nurturing and stable upbringing is the reason why he did not develop into a psychopath despite his brain imaging results showing very little activity in the frontal lobe, a common characteristic in psychopaths/sociopaths. He had an unusual high amount of criminals and murderers in his family history. He believes he inherited the genetic predisposition that contributed to the deviant behaviors of his ancestors.
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