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I'm Indra Viscontas.

And I'm Kishorehari.

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So do you have any plans for this week? Or have you been surrounded by family? I've been

surrounded by family. I'm continually

being surrounded by family. So do you ever wonder if any of them have psychopathic tendencies?

Or how about exceptional altruism? In the spirit of giving? No comment. Well, I always thought those two things were actually very different,

the psychopath and the altruist, but it turns out that this week's guest actually thinks

that they are in some ways cut from the same cloth, albeit maybe on the same spectrum at opposite

ends of it. This week I interviewed Abigail March, who's an associate professor of psychology and

neuroscience at Georgetown, and she directs its prize-winning laboratory on social and

affective neuroscience. She started her work at the NIH, in which she did research on child

psychopathy. Child psychopathy. Are we talking like Kevin McAllister from home alone?

Well, what's the character in South Park that like is just...

Cartman.

Yeah, maybe someone more like that.

So obviously this is something that a lot of parents worry about.

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