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Definition of sociopath in English: sociopathnoun ˈsəʊʃɪə(ʊ)paθˈsəʊsɪə(ʊ)paθˈsoʊsioʊˌpæθ A person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviour. Example sentencesExamples - Even highly skilled mental health professionals are often fooled by sociopaths, and the narcissistic behavior they exhibit is extraordinarily effective in manipulating and controlling their victims.
- While I'm well aware I have many mental issues, I know I can never be a sociopath because guilt and shame are my two oldest friends.
- Dramatic mental failures of this sort shade into failures of empathy, a deficit found in many sociopaths, who also show reduced function of the frontal cortices.
- Franklin was a manipulative murderer and quite possibly a sociopath.
- Some people are clearly sociopaths while others are so delusional that it is clearly unfair to expect them to behave in a rational manner.
- Indeed, these very same people are the most vicious sociopaths when it comes to beating down, and destroying the careers of, talented people below them who they perceive as a threat.
- No society has yet been able to free itself of sociopaths, extreme bigots, and aggressive personalities.
- There's no universally agreed upon difference between the word sociopath and psychopath.
- Professor Kets de Vries says the world can neatly be divided into three distinct behavioural groups: sociopaths, psychopaths and what he calls ‘normopaths’, or excessively normal people.
- I see ‘evil’ being the actions of a person who chooses to be a sociopath, someone who knows right and wrong and chooses wrong.
- Psycopaths or sociopaths are not mad, they have personality disorders which cannot be cured as they are ingrained into a person's psyche.
- With the exception of sociopaths, who are expert liars, most people sound tense, their voices highly pitched, when they fib.
- I have learned that these people are sociopaths with no thought whatsoever for what happens to other creatures.
- While the film is engrossing, its bleak message doesn't resonate for long because we've heard it before: society gets the homicidal sociopaths it deserves and there's plenty of blame to spread around.
- The Card Perseveration Task was developed by Siegel to assist in measuring pathology in sociopaths, specifically, the apparent inability to respond to punishment.
- He or she may be a sociopath, a psychopath, or simply a good liar.
- The complaint seems to be that the majority of the people leaving comments are negative creeps, violent sociopaths or people with no sense of decorum, politeness or appropriateness.
- The term antisocial personality is often used interchangeably with psychopath or sociopath and is connotative of many forms of deviant behavior.
- Internet discussion groups at times appear to be founts of perspicacity and wisdom, at other times the ultimate refuge for sociopaths releasing years of pent-up frustration.
- But the claim that some sociopaths are born does not preclude the possibility that some sociopaths are made.
Synonyms madman, madwoman, mad person, deranged person, maniac, lunatic, psychotic
Derivatives adjective səʊʃɪə(ʊ)ˈpaθɪksəʊsɪə(ʊ)ˈpaθɪkˌsoʊsioʊˈpæθɪk Some violent offenders are not sociopathic or psychopathic, yet probably about 20 percent of the prison population is diagnosable as being psychopathic. Example sentencesExamples - Some individuals may well have a genetic propensity for aggression or for mental instability - or even for sociopathic behavior.
- He's grown into a troubled and sociopathic adult.
- Jason Soon has an interesting post drawing attention to research suggesting a link between psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and abnormal brain development.
- His borderline sociopathic behaviour leads him into violent confrontations, wherein he's ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
noun səʊʃɪˈɒpəθisəʊsɪˈɒpəθiˌsoʊsiˈɑpəθi Modern scholarship has shown Lucrezia to be a rather unfortunate young woman who was the victim of her mad brother's sociopathy and her father's ruthless ambition. Example sentencesExamples - If these defects lie in all of us, which of course they do to some extent, then looking at a more comprehensive list of symptoms for sociopathy and psychopathy might lead the way.
- But what's not clear is if this is pathological lying to an extreme, so that it indicates actually a character flaw, anti-social personality or sociopathy which is found in many criminals.
- Isn't consistently showing a lack of remorse or regret symptomatic of psychopathy or sociopathy?
- For example, prospectively matching alcoholic patients to cognitive behavioral therapy or interactional therapy based on levels of sociopathy and psychiatric severity was found to reduce negative consequences of drinking.
Definition of sociopath in US English: sociopathnounˈsoʊsioʊˌpæθˈsōsēōˌpaTH A person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience. Example sentencesExamples - I see ‘evil’ being the actions of a person who chooses to be a sociopath, someone who knows right and wrong and chooses wrong.
- Professor Kets de Vries says the world can neatly be divided into three distinct behavioural groups: sociopaths, psychopaths and what he calls ‘normopaths’, or excessively normal people.
- Some people are clearly sociopaths while others are so delusional that it is clearly unfair to expect them to behave in a rational manner.
- Psycopaths or sociopaths are not mad, they have personality disorders which cannot be cured as they are ingrained into a person's psyche.
- With the exception of sociopaths, who are expert liars, most people sound tense, their voices highly pitched, when they fib.
- The Card Perseveration Task was developed by Siegel to assist in measuring pathology in sociopaths, specifically, the apparent inability to respond to punishment.
- Internet discussion groups at times appear to be founts of perspicacity and wisdom, at other times the ultimate refuge for sociopaths releasing years of pent-up frustration.
- No society has yet been able to free itself of sociopaths, extreme bigots, and aggressive personalities.
- Even highly skilled mental health professionals are often fooled by sociopaths, and the narcissistic behavior they exhibit is extraordinarily effective in manipulating and controlling their victims.
- But the claim that some sociopaths are born does not preclude the possibility that some sociopaths are made.
- There's no universally agreed upon difference between the word sociopath and psychopath.
- Dramatic mental failures of this sort shade into failures of empathy, a deficit found in many sociopaths, who also show reduced function of the frontal cortices.
- The term antisocial personality is often used interchangeably with psychopath or sociopath and is connotative of many forms of deviant behavior.
- He or she may be a sociopath, a psychopath, or simply a good liar.
- While I'm well aware I have many mental issues, I know I can never be a sociopath because guilt and shame are my two oldest friends.
- Indeed, these very same people are the most vicious sociopaths when it comes to beating down, and destroying the careers of, talented people below them who they perceive as a threat.
- While the film is engrossing, its bleak message doesn't resonate for long because we've heard it before: society gets the homicidal sociopaths it deserves and there's plenty of blame to spread around.
- The complaint seems to be that the majority of the people leaving comments are negative creeps, violent sociopaths or people with no sense of decorum, politeness or appropriateness.
- I have learned that these people are sociopaths with no thought whatsoever for what happens to other creatures.
- Franklin was a manipulative murderer and quite possibly a sociopath.
Synonyms madman, madwoman, mad person, deranged person, maniac, lunatic, psychotic
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