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I liked this. Although I am not 100% certain that everyone in the vignettes was a card carrying sociopath. Stout does identify a few earmark characteristics that appear to be on the radar of many sociopaths. In all this was a very good read and her attempt to define and discuss conscience was very informative. A few psychologists have deemed the book to be pop culture alarmism and I can see why, however Stout has some very good points.

I asked my5 year old to choose my next read. Thinks what she chose.

I enjoyed this book. I liked Ronson‘s style and curious nature. It was silly in some ways but informative in others. He showed an ability to learn, apply, and self correct through the book. I bought the rest of his books in the early pages of starting this one. I look forward to reading them.

Psychopathy, sociopathy, and ASPD have been seemingly everywhere lately, so I pulled 3 books to try and learn more about them and sort out facts from pop culture misinformation. This was the second book in my stack. It‘s written by a journalist, and the writing is compelling, but it‘s kind of all over the place. I‘m mostly learning the history behind the pop culture perception of psychopathy, which isn‘t really what I‘m after…

Neuroscience researcher comes across his own brain scan which is supposed to be part of the control group for one of his studies, notices major abnormalities, & begins a journey of self reflection. This is a combo professional & personal memoir & it included just enough hard neuroscience for me to learn something new & still basically be able to follow what he was saying, but I wasn‘t always on board with the conclusions he drew from the science.

This is probably the standard introductory tome for the layperson to begin to understand psychopathology. They live among us, a solid percentage of the world population exists without a functioning ability to feel empathy. Not just hustlers and criminals, but politicians, CEOs and other successful people who pretend to be ‘normal‘. Good advice for how to avoid psychopaths and disentangle them from your life.

Dutton draws a parallel between key psychopathic traits and people highly apt for professions like brain surgeons, military, politicians, etc. Attributes such as; incapable of empathy, lack of remorse, unable to feel anxious, to name a few. These are useful, for lack of a better word, when performing under pressure/stress and staying sharp in the midst of chaos. Pretty interesting!

This is going to be possibly my only audio book of the year! Listened to on our recent road trip. I found many of the chapters interesting but was a bit confused about whether there was a real connection. A few times ideas started and didn‘t really go anywhere and there was a sense of ‘so what‘ about some of the content And ideas

Yeah this was really good ngl, great look at assessment tools for ASPD and psychopathy