The Big Five Personality Test

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The Real Life Hannibal Lecters

Stories of evil and of the "Ultimate Empowerment"

Antisocial Personality Disorder: When Is It Treatable?

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"Calculating, manipulative, possibly violent yet also frequently charming and alluring, the person with antisocial personality disorder presents a unique clinical challenge: even the most seasoned clinician may not make the diagnosis until the patient has conned even the psychiatrist. Treatment is possible—in some patients, under some conditions—but even then the clinician should approach the encounter with only guarded optimism and a sober sense of what is achievable, said Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., at APA’s 2003 Institute on Psychiatric Services in Boston."

 Psychiatric News , January 02, 2004 

Volume 39 (1) page 25-25

Jeffrey Dahmer

More About the Brain from Ramachandran

"Gleaning insights from these rare and intriguing neurological disorders, Ramachandran reveals how the human brain has evolved unique functions that separate us from other primates. He proposes that around 150,000 years ago our brain started to change, allowing us to learn to perform new tasks. “All the same old parts were there,” he writes, “but they started working together in ways that were far more than the sum of their parts,” giving humans distinctive traits, such as language, empathy and morality."

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Eyewitness Testimonies Revisited

The above graph shows some preliminary results from the SKS Eyewitness Testimony Experiment. 74 students and faculty were shown a brief video clip in which a person is engaged in some type of suspicious activity on the roof of a building. When asked to identify the perpetrator in a line-up, most incorrectly picked suspect #3 (27 IDs). On average, they were 70% confident with their answer. Only five answered correctly and recognized that the perpetrator was not in the line-up.