continues: To test the hypothesis, the researchers with Professor Stephen Porter’s Forensic Psychology Lab at Dalhousie showed slides of different faces to a sample of young men. The faces were either happy or sad, male or female, and described as being in either a high- or low-paying job.

Mr. Wilson found men who scored high on a psychopathic personality questionnaire (a series of 187 questions probing emotional reactions and impulsivity) possessed the unusual ability to recall sad females in low-paying jobs. At the same time, they also had an unusual inability to recall females who were happy or in high-paying jobs, nor were they good at putting names to faces.

“What we concluded is that psychopathy is associated with a kind of ‘predatory memory,’” says Mr. Wilson, 22, from Moncton, N.B. “They may use this to actively select their victims.”

He’s interested in doing further research with diagnosed offenders in the criminal population.

Mr. Wilson’s interest in psychopaths w

continues: Mr. Wilson’s interest in psychopaths was piqued while taking Dr. Porter’s second-year class Abnormal Psychology. He distinctly recalls reading a paragraph on psychopathy in the class textbook that intrigued him.

“It’s not like anxiety or depression; we can relate to those conditions,” he says. “But to perceive your world without emotion is so foreign … it just makes it so interesting..”

It may be interesting, but you wouldn't want to be anywhere around a Psychopath. Here, one is compared to a lion. Even though we marvel at a lions ability as a predator, the Human Beings mind is so much more advanced and so much more cunning and dangerous. I would rather take my chances with a lion.

Lions? Psychopaths seem more like crocodiles.

You're right! Crocodiles are perfect!!!

Alas,
There is so much evil in the world.

I'm going home...