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How Psychopaths See the World
The Atlantic
Format: Magazine Article
Publication Date: 2018/03/12/
Sources ID: 38836
Collection: Theory of Mind
Visibility: Public (group default)
Abstract: (Show)
This article highlights the difference in development of ToM in normal functioning adults and psychopaths despite the latter group being able to understand what other people think and believe just accurately as the former group. While regular-functioning adults mentalize automatically, beginning as an involuntary process from infancy, this process happens less strongly in psychopaths. Research has shown that psychopaths do not have the automatic ability that most people have, despite being able to deliberately take the perspective of another.