It turns out that although it is a psychopath, it is non-criminal, and on the contrary, there are cases where it is socially successful.
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A psychopath is a person who has an antisocial personality of mental illness, and is defined as a 'mentally disabled person' in Article 5 of the Japanese law 'Act on Mental Health and Welfare for Persons with Mental Illness'. Psychopaths are sometimes associated with anomalous criminals, but the existence of socially-adapted and somewhat successful psychopaths in the fields of psychology and psychopathology is controversial.
On the trail of the elusive successful psychopath | The Psychologist
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-27/edition-7/trail-elusive-successful-psychopath
Psychopaths are very vague from a psychological point of view and are sometimes referred to in the same line as serial killers, but in the book 'The Mask of Sanity' by psychiatrist Harvey Klekley, it seems. Psychopaths are defined as attractive, dishonest, narcissist, lack of emotion, no regret, lack of credibility, and no foresight. While Cleckley considers psychopaths to be ill, he also states that they have social adaptive traits, an example of which is a businessman.
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One of the businessmen that Mr. Crekley met had the essential abilities to facilitate relationships, work without risk, and succeed at work. However, the back face of the businessman repeats affairs abnormally, and he is an extreme lover of alcohol. Mr. Crekley has made known to the world that psychopaths are not always criminal, and that there are non-criminal or socially successful psychopaths.
Although Cookley revealed the existence of a 'successful psychopath,' research focused on the psychopath that caused the bizarre incident has been focused on, and research on 'successful psychopaths' has long been pushed to the corner. Was there. The 'successful psychopath' regained attention when Kathy Widom, who later became a professor of psychology at Harvard University, conducted an experiment in 1977.
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Mr. Widom tried to contact people who met the characteristics of psychopaths through the correspondence section of newspapers in Japan, and conducted various investigations. The survey found that about 65% of the people Widom met in the newspaper met the Psychopath criteria. None of the people Widom declared to be Psychopaths had a criminal record, and some had established social status, such as bankers and brokerage firms.
Widom's findings reveal researchers who hypothesize that fearless psychopathic characteristics are linked to heroic and heroic behavior. Behavioral geneticist David Leiken was one of them, hypothesizing that great men and psychopaths could have similar genes. Leiken's hypothesis applies to Jeremy Johnson, a well-known millionaire in Utah.
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In the 2010 Haiti earthquake , Johnson drove his own helicopter to evacuate large numbers of children from dangerous areas, deliver relief supplies by helicopter, and devote himself to rescue activities. It is known that celebrities raise funds in the event of a natural disaster, but it is not normal to drive a helicopter and perform rescue activities on your own.
In addition, behind the help of rescue activities, Mr. Johnson has 86 criminal accusations such as money laundering and fraud, and has the face of both a hero and a villain. However, there is no evidence that Mr Johnson is a psychopath. It just happened to fit Mr. Widom's hypothesis. More systematic research is needed to link heroic behavior to psychopaths.
A study linking heroic behavior to psychopaths was conducted in 2013. The survey is not a legendary heroic behavior, but a questionnaire to see if there are any characteristics of psychopaths for those who enter into arbitration of fights, help bikers who are in trouble due to lack of gas, or perform small daily heroic behaviors. Use it to find out. In addition, we will also investigate whether their altruistic behavior was directed toward charity, strangers, and what the target of altruistic behavior was for those who were screened in the questionnaire. bottom.
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According to the survey results, one of the characteristics of psychopath, 'not feeling fear', is common to those who are analyzed that 'heroic behavior is not charity but altruistic behavior directed at others'. Turned out. Using data derived from this survey and other experiments, 121 biographical writers and psychology experts analyzed whether successive presidents of the United States up to the 43rd had psychopathic traits, and found that they were heroes. It seems that there was a strong relationship between the fearless characteristics confirmed by the behavior and the leadership, communication ability, ability to persuade the public, and willingness to take risks that successive presidents had.
In addition to this, research was conducted to analyze the characteristics of psychopaths and people who have succeeded in various fields, but the underlying 'difference between successful psychopaths and criminal psychopaths' 'successful psychopaths' No clear criteria or answers have been derived for questions such as 'definition and criteria of' 'the danger of a successful psychopath committing a criminal act', which has caused a great deal of controversy among intellectuals, and many investigations and experiments are still being conducted. Is required.
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