psychology and serial killers essaysWhy do some people bite their nails when they are stressed, while others laugh nervously or punch holes in walls? We know there is some genetic cause for one behavior to develop over another, but what exactly makes
Serial killers like Seattles Ted Bundy, Marylands Beltway Sniper, Atlantas Wayne Williams, or Englands Peter Sutcliffe usually outsmart the task forces on their trail for long periods of time. Keppel and Birnes take readers inside the operations of serial killer task forces to learn why. What ...
Serial Killers, Serial Liars | The Psychology of False Confessions | 5 (Podcast Episode) Details Full Cast and Crew Release Dates Official Sites Company Credits Filming & Production Technical Specs Explore More Share this page:
Both entertaining and educational. I found the break down as to why so many of the world serial killers reside in the United States especially intriguing. Many factors played a part on creating the"perfect storm". Great Q&A period wish I had taken advantage of it, my mind has been working...
violent behaviors. Withoutshame, psychopaths charm and exploit others for their own gain. They lack empathy and a sense of responsibility, and they manipulate, lie, and freely con others. It would probably surprise no one that clever psychopaths can rise quickly in rank within totalitarian regimes...
And there are there to be found, as the above quote illustrates. Hybristophilia is the technical term for those (almost exclusively women) who fetishize criminality. But spree killing (and serial killing) is not mere criminality. It is among the most taboo of behaviors (often involving ...
I’ve just finished reading ‘The Psychopath Inside’ by James Fallon (Penguin, 2013, 246 pages.) Fallon was a neuroscientist studying the brain scans of psychopaths: serial killers with no conscience and no empathy. Co-incidentally, he had a folder with brain scans of all his own family me...
Various explanations have been proposed to explain the motivation of serial killers. This article proposes that the theory of the Catathymic Crisis is an explanation that adds light to the “serial” nature of serial murder as well as an explanation of why and how a person can become a serial...
t. As psychologist Kevin Dutton says in his bookThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success,in the experiment psychopaths,“without batting an eye, are perfectly happy to chuck the fat guy over the side, if that’s how the cookie crumbles....
Most people immediately envision psychotic serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy when they think of sociopathy, but antisocial behavior is much more pervasive and immediate. While there is a marked difference, however, between discrete antisocial “acts” and ...