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8. Classic case. People who don't have these key normal feelings:

- MSN/Insider, '4 Defining Traits of A Psychopath, According To A Researcher Who Studies Them,' 2021. - Ed.

During a virtual seminar, neuroscientist & psychologist Abby Marsh explained what makes a psychopath.
Marsh said psychopathy exists on a spectrum from mild to severe, but all psychopaths have 4 defining traits- pitilessness, remorselessness, an inability to love, and insensitivity to the possibility of harm.
Some people may assume that psychopaths are born from traumatic childhoods and depraved households, but a neuroscientist with 15 years of brain research experience says her findings suggest that's not the case.

During a virtual seminar from The Science & Information Exchange, an organization that connects the entertainment industry with science professionals, Georgetown University psychology professor & neuroscientist Abigail Marsh explained that the root of their illness often stems from brain development.
"We do know that the severity of these traits is linked to characteristic brain abnormalities that seem to start early in childhood & then sort of progress," Marsh, who also founded the research non-profit Psychopathy Is said. Marsh says psychopathy exists on a spectrum from mild to severe, with some being more manipulative, risk-taking, and threatening than others.

- Still, Marsh said every psychopath has 4 characteristics: pitilessness, remorselessness, an inability to love, and insensitivity to the possibility of harm.

Psychopaths have little to no pity or remorse for others: First, people on the psychopathy spectrum have trouble feeling pity, said Marsh. When someone close to a psychopath feels sad or fearful, they can't understand the emotion, because it's something they don't feel themselves, she said. Marsh gave the example of an elementary school-aged boy she studied who videotaped his teachers & classmates as they reacted to a potential terrorist attack on their school, screaming, crying & evacuating.

Similarly, people with psychopathy feel little to no remorse when they harm others mentally, emotionally, or physically, according to Marsh.

She also studied a boy whose teachers expelled and suspended him from school so often, his mother lost her job because she needed to tend to him. She later checked in at a mental health facility due to the stress, and when Marsh asked the boy how he felt, he said it didn't affect him. "He said, 'The things I do hurt her, but she doesn't really say how much, so it doesn't have any effect on me.' He was blaming his mom for his total absence of remorse, for all the negative effects that had occurred because of his behavior," Marsh said...

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