{"id":213725,"date":"2016-01-04T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=213725"},"modified":"2016-01-04T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:12:09","slug":"behavior-self-professed-psychopath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/behavior-self-professed-psychopath\/","title":{"rendered":"Behavior of a Self-Professed Psychopath"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, psychopaths can be intelligent and charming, while hiding a lack of empathy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">So given their ability to manipulate others, how easy it is for you to spot one?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Self-professed psychopath Jacob Wells has revealed how he behaves in different situations and has listed questions that may help others identify whether they have any psychopathic traits \u2014 as well as recognise them in others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">These include superficial charm, a grandiose notion of self-worth, the need for stimulation and impulsiveness, pathological lying, the ability to manipulate others and a lack of remorse and empathy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Of course, not all psychopaths are criminals and murderers \u2014 in fact, many hold important positions in businesses thanks to their ruthless and impulsive attitude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) is used as a diagnostic tool to determine where someone lies on the psychopathy spectrum, as not all psychopaths display all the traits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3379996\/How-spot-psychopath-Expert-reveals-traits-look-charm-eccentricity-manipulation.html\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, psychopaths can be intelligent and charming, while hiding a lack of empathy. So given their ability to manipulate others, how easy it is for you to spot one? Self-professed psychopath Jacob Wells has revealed how he behaves in different situations and has listed questions that may help others identify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}