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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk posted on December 28th, 2012.

I'm Steve Merski.

On this episode...

When we talk about a psychopath, we're talking about someone with a distinct set of personality characteristics,

and that can predispose you to great success in certain fields or professions.

That's Kevin Dutton.

He's a psychologist at the Calaver Research Center for Evolution and Human Science at the

University of Oxford.

And his latest book is The Wisdom of Psychopaths, What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers

can teach us about success.

And what's coming up next is part one of a multi-part psychopath

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