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Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Psychopaths tend to have normal relationships with people around them. |
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card#12
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Sociopaths tend to see their victim as an instrument to be used for personal gain. |
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card#13
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Psychopaths have a persuasive personality. |
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Card#14
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Sociopaths try to dominate others and humiliate their victims. |
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Card#15
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Sociopaths have no qualms lying and it becomes very difficult for them to be truthful. |
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Card#16
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Sociopaths do not feel any guilt or remorse. |
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Card#17
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Sociopaths make others guilty and responsible for their actions. |
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Card#18
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Sociopaths tend to have promiscuity, involved in child sexual abuse, rape, and indulge in sexual acting out of all types. |
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Card#19
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Psychopaths tend to think of themselves as victims and play on the fact that most of their victims are trusting and forgiving people. |
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Card#20
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Definition
Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: The symptoms of sociopaths and psychopaths usually show up around the age of 15 or so. |
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card#1
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: A Sociopath is a person who is plagued with a personality disorder
that is marked by traits of anti-social behavior. |
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Card#2
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Pyschopath
Note: A Psychopath is a person who has an anti-social personality disorder that is seeping with an aggressive, perverted, criminal mind with amoral behavior that lacks empathy or remorse. |
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Card#3
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Their are marked differences between Sociopaths and Psychopaths. |
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card#4
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Many think Sociopaths and psychopaths are people with no emotional feelings towards others and no regard towards the laws of society. |
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Card#5
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Anti-social personality indicators-
The person fails to conform to social norms and lawful behavior that is shown by the repeated occurences of arrrests by Police. |
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card#6
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopaths
Note: The person is deceitful and is used to lying repeatedly, uses aliases and cons people for personal gain or pleasure. |
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card#7
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: They are impulsive, and do not plan for the future. |
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card#8
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Definition
Topic: Sociopath vs. psycopath
Note: Easily irritated, become agressive, which is indicated by their involvment in physical fights or assault cases. |
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card#9
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Psychopaths are obsessivly organized people. |
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card#10
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Definition
Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Sociopaths cannot maintain normal relationships with their family, friends or co-workers. |
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Card#21
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: sociopaths are not able to maintain a steady employment or house. |
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Card#22
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Definition
Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Sociopaths and psychopaths are medical mental disorders |
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Card#23
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Definition
Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Under both disorders, the person seems to lack a "conscience", they show a lack of remorse for their wrong doings, inability to form a genuine relationship and an out of proportion reaction to the comprehended rebuffs. |
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Card#24
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Although Sociopaths and psychopaths tend to have vast similarities between them, the little dissimilarities between them makes them stand apart. |
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Card#25
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: A mental disorder is marked by deeply ingrained and lasting patterns of inflexible, maladaptive and antisocial behaviors. |
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Card#26
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Definition
Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: Many cases, an individual with a personality disorder does not seek psychiatric treatment for such unless he or she is pressured to by his or her relatives or by a court. |
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Card#27
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: There are many types of personality disorders, they are classified according to the particular personality traits that are accentuated. |
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Card#28
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batul Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
Note: One of the most important disorders is the antisocial, Sociopathic or psychopathic Personality disorder. |
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card#29
Source: Encyclopedia Brittanica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittanica |
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Topic: Personality Disorders
Note: Persons with antisocial personality disorders make up a significant portion of the criminal and delinquent elements of society. |
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source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Personality Disorders
Note: Symptoms of antisocial behavior may include sexual promiscuity or sexual agression and drug addiction or alcohol abuse. |
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source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Personality Disorders
Note: The causes of personality disorders are unknown. |
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source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Personality Disorders
Note: Personality traits are, by definition, virtually perminant |
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source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Personality Disorders
Note: Personality Disorders are only partially amendable to treatment, if at all. |
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source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Personality Disorders
Note: Most effective treatments combine various behaviorial and psychotheraputic therapies. |
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source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Personality Disorders
Note: Medicines may be helpful in alleviating periodic Anxiety, Depression, Emotional Instabiliy, or Paranoid tendanicies, in some cases. |
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card#36
Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: John Phillip Jenkins |
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Topic: Peter Kurten
Note: Peter Kurten, or "The Dusseldorf Vampire" was a widely analyzed German serial Killer. |
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card#37
Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: John Phillip Jenkins |
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Topic: Peter Kurten
Note: Peter influenced European society's understanding of serial murder, sexual violence and sadism in the 20th century. |
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card#38
Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: John Phillip Jenkins |
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Topic: Peter Kurten
Note: Peter Kurten recounted details of his crimes to psychologist Karl Berg. |
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card#39
Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: John Phillip Jenkins |
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Topic: Peter Kurten
Note: According to Psychologist Karl Berg, Kurten was a sexual psychopath. |
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card#40
Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: John Phillip Jenkins |
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Topic: Peter Kurten
Note: Kurten's crimes represented a perfect example of "Lustmord" or murder for pleasure. |
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card#41
Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Serial murder
note: Serial killing is unlawful homocide of at least two people over time. |
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Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Serial murder
note: The two murders can also be classified as a serial killing over a period of time ranging from hours to years. |
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card#43
Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Serial murder
note: Typical victims include, Women, Migrants, Prostitutes, Children, Homosexuals and, Vagrants. |
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card#44
Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Serial murder
note: One of the oldest documented cases involved, Locusta, a Roman woman hired to poison several members of the Imperial Family. |
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Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Serial murder
note: The known incidence of serial murder increased dramatically in the early 19th century, particuarly in Europe. |
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Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Serial murder
note: Some Psychiatrists have drawn the conclusion that stories about serial killings are actually morally edifying because they help people to see the differences between right and wrong. |
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card#47
Source: Encyclopedia Brittannica
Author: Encyclopedia Brittannica |
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Topic: Serial murder
note: Movies and stories are misleading because they suggest that serial killing is much more common than it really is. |
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card#48
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batual Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
note: Psychopathic Personality disorder is untreatable. |
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card#49
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batual Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
note: Sociopaths are found living at the periphery of society. |
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card#50
Source: Buzzle.com
Author: Batual Nafisa Baxamusa |
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Topic: Sociopath vs. Psychopath
note: A study carried out with the homeless people of New York as subjects showed that majority of them were Sociopaths. |
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