Symptoms Of A Possible Psychopath
* Grandiose Self-Worth: A grossly inflated view of one's abilities and self-worth, self-assured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart. Psychopaths arearrogant people who believe they are superior human beings.
* Need for Stimulation or Proneness to Boredom: An excessive need for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances anddoing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they get bored easily. They fail to work at the same job for any length oftime, for example, or to finish tasks that they consider dull or routine.
* Pathological Lyin: Can be moderate or high; in moderate form, they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; inextreme form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous, manipulative, and dishonest.
* Conning and Manipulativeness: The use of deceit and deception to cheat, con, ordefraud others for personal gain; distinguished from Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and suffering ofone's victims.
* Lack of Remorse or Guilt: A lack of feelings or concern for the losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned, dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
* Shallow Affect: Emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of opengregariousness.
* Callousness and Lack of Empathy: A lack of feelings toward people in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
* Parasitic Lifestyle: An intentional,...
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