superficial charm
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- superficial charm
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a psychopath's ability to make you like them, so that you can be manipulated
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superficial charm blinds us to the psychopath
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- Jul 2023
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For psychopaths, it tends to be switched off by default. But they're actually really good at mimicking a normal brain if and when they need to.
- brain scans support the idea that psychopaths feel no empathy by default, but can switch empathy on when they need to show "superficial charm"
- normal people cannot switch empathy off, but psychopaths can switch empathy on
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