Sentences with phrase «of psychopaths»

Director Marjane Satrapi, who previously helmed the coming - of - age animated pic Persepolis, takes audiences inside the mind of a psychopath in The Voices to wonderful results.

Psychopathy has a strong negative connotation to it, thanks to the number of psychopaths who have committed crimes and atrocities.

Naturally we have Patrick Henry in the role of psychopath who says «No, Europe is really cooling.»

[R] esearch found lawyers landed second only to CEOs in the number of psychopaths in their ranks, and it certainly makes sense that some lawyers (say, litigators) would benefit from the ability to turn on the charm and lie without conscience.

But what sort of psychopath uses a Mercedes E-Class to go 0 to 60 in 3 seconds?

According to research done by psychologist Kevin Dutton called the Great British Psychopath Survey, some jobs seem to attract them and have higher than average numbers of psychopaths among their practitioners.

And, of course, the frequent depiction in the media of psychopaths as inhuman monsters makes a powerful impression.

'' I don't know what kind of psychopath eats a two - hour long breakfast and doesn't accept gifts while eating — who wouldn't love to receive a bag of dirt in the middle of their Denver omelet?

In 2013, he made worldwide news with his project of cerebrosomatic anastomosis (Head Transplant) and again in 2014 with his cortical stimulation proposal for the treatment of psychopaths.

Fear can't be found in the bloodshot eyes of a psychopath approaching you with a knife in his hand.

There are a lot of psychopaths who find it very convenient that other people believe in restraint, and many of these people become preachers or priests.

The game takes place in Rapture, a city full of psychopaths ready to do the most gruesome and terrible things.

With the advent of neuroscience, we know the brains of psychopaths are atypical, leading some experts to call psychopathy a neurodevelopmental disorder, akin to autism, and one that's diagnosable even in small children.

Even if the core personality traits of psychopaths are exceedingly difficult to change, their criminal behaviors may prove more amenable to treatment.

Plus, the fact that this movie goes from a simple story about a bunch of psychopaths kidnapping dogs for extra cash into something as ridiculous as a deliriously violent showdown in the middle of the desert makes it that much more viciously entertaining and unpredictable.

Let's face it ladies, you all love to watch those horror movies and yell at the girl on screen naively putting herself in harm's way of a psychopath.

But this doesn't mean they're all exceptionally charismatic: «It may be true of some, and it is often said of the psychopath that they're superficially charming,» says Dr. Black.

If anything, she reveals herself to be more of a psychopath with each passing scene.

One study found that a small but significant portion of business leaders — 3 to 4 percent — meet the clinical definition of a psychopath.

And sorry, business leaders, but executive actually tops the list of jobs with the highest proportion of psychopaths.

The fact that some faked their loyalties well back in the day is why we have a minority of psychopaths and sociopaths which survive in our population today.

We don't run into this type of psychopath too often.

Yeah I don't think you're following the path of a psychopath.

These religious people rudely touched the pope without any acknowledgment of his safety or comfort because religious people are usually inconsiderate of others, and they talk to an imaginary character named God in their minds which is similar to the behavior of psychopaths.

I non-jokingly become a bit of a psychopath.

Apparently people can't get enough of psychopaths.

But that would start to change in the mid-20th century, when psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley published The Mask of Sanity, providing character portraits of psychopaths in his care at Georgia's University Hospital.

«From an evolutionary psychology perspective, the structure and functions [of psychopaths» brains] may be a little different, but they're properly designed for engagement in predatory behaviors.

Eighty to 90 percent of non-psychopaths and community controls chose to get it over with immediately, but only 56 percent of psychopaths chose that option, suggesting that they did not mind waiting for an unpleasant event.

The traditional picture of the psychopath is one that everyone, from psychiatrists to members of a jury, seems to share.

Regardless of semantics, here's how to spot the heartless, charming evil of a psychopath or sociopath

Atheists, the researchers found, are most closely aligned with psychopaths — not killers, but the vast majority of psychopaths classified as such due to their lack of empathy for others.

However, the truth is: no one can fill the void of a psychopath's soul.

The film is really two parallel character studies — one of a con man, the other of a psychopath.

A reporter and a musician work together to solve a mystery after a psychic is murdered, but they quickly become targets of the psychopath.

The master of suspense unravels a compelling tale of a psychopath manipulating an average Joe into a complex murder plot.

That is, unless you wish to hunt for collectibles or kill Maniacs, Dead Rising 4's version of the Psychopath, albeit without the zaniness and cutscenes.

The story is about a gang of psychopaths who kidnap and brutalize a couple of teenagers, before unwittingly staying overnight at the same house as one of the victim's parents.

An episode where one of the characters falls into the clutches of a psychopath armed with all the tools necessary to skin somebody alive is really pretty disgusting.

There is but one symptom of being a fan of these psychopaths: a little bit of a headache, and a touch of confusion.

Law is arbitrary and in the hands of psychopaths, and for the wreckage grapple these men with guns, at war in liminal spaces (border towns and beaches) for uncertain gains.

«I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath — someone with very little to no conscience.

What's diabolically fascinating is the workaday, white trash camaraderie of the psychopath relationship in this film, and the grey areas where one crazy killer feels the other has crossed some line of decency.

The story follows a staff of a Mexican restaurant on Halloween who are taken hostage by a trio of psychopaths.