28: James Fallon | How to Spot a Psychopath

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Jordan Harbinger

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🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

James Fallon (@jameshfallon) is a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California, Irvine and author of The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain.

What We Discuss with James Fallon:

The ingredients that go into creating a psychopath.
The differences between psychopaths and sociopaths.
How we as a society can limit the expression of psychopathic and sociopathic traits -- and why evolution hasn't done the job already.
How to spot a psychopath.
Why psychopaths are so good at manipulating people -- and what we can do about it.
And much more...

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1:04.2	I think it's very important to have enough people in any population that will first of all
1:09.3	would love to go kill somebody. Also they are people, especially the thrill seekers,
1:14.9	love to go over the mountain and have sex with anybody they find on the other side. And so
1:19.9	psychopathy, which is so stable in all human society, they can come in handy and they take risks
1:26.1	that others don't and they take smart risks. Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger.
1:32.9	As always, I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo. On this episode, we're talking with Dr. James
1:38.0	Fallon. He's a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California,
1:42.1	Irvine, an author of the psychopath inside a neuroscientist journey into the dark side of the brain.
1:49.5	This is a psychopath who studies psychopaths. But the story of how he discovered he was a psychopath
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