Psychopathy may be two different things, not one: in 115 ordinary adults, one type’s attention locked hard onto the images that unsettle most people, while the other barely flinched at them

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A study at Erasmus University Rotterdam measured what people's brains and eyes actually did in front of disturbing pictures, and found the two darker sides of the psychopathic personality behaving in opposite ways. The fearless trait went with attention that seized on the images, at least in the men tested; the cold trait went with a blunted flinch and muted feeling. The volunteers were healthy young adults, not diagnosed psychopaths, and the effects were modest, so the finding is a lead to follow, not a verdict. The post Psychopathy may be two different things, not one: in 115 ordinary adults, one type’s attention locked hard onto the images that unsettle most people, while the other barely flinched at them appeared first on Space Daily .