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POPS"What Attracts the Psychopath?"
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
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POPS5 Psychological Experiments That Expose Humanity's Dark Side #2. The Stanford Prison Experiment (1971) The Setup: Psychologist Philip Zimbardo wanted to find out how captivity affects authorities and inmates in prison. Sounds innocent enough. Seriously, what could go wrong? #1. The Milgram Experiment (1961) The Setup: When the prosecution of the Nazis got underway at the Nuremberg Trials, many of the defendants' excuse seemed to revolve around the ideas of, "I'm not really a prick" and, "Hey man, I was just following orders." Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to test willingness of subjects to obey an authority figure. Maybe he could just, you know, ask people? Oh, hell no. That would not be nearly horrifying enough.
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POPSYeah! I'm not a psychopath!!! I have serious doubts about such "tests" yet I found it very rewarding that I got it wrong. If you get it right it could mean that you're simply more creative than others.
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POPSAntipolygraph.org Hardly startling or revolutionary information, yet do to the number of people I encounter that consider the polygraph a valid means of lie detection I felt it was worth clipping.
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