psychopathy

基本解释

In Damon's book, a wonderful book on psychopathy, he talks about a thirteen-year-old mugger who specialized in mugging blind people.
在Damon一本关于精神变态的书中，他谈到一个13岁的行凶劫匪,他专门行凶抢劫盲人。
These statements, and others like them, were designed to measure, respectively, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and a person’s sense of how meaningful life is.
这些以及其他类似的表达都是专门设计分别来检测精神变态、权术主义和人生价值观的。
Conversely, less activity in mirror systems has been linked to autism and also with psychopathy - different conditions that are both noted for low levels of empathy.
相反，反射镜系统较不活跃的人则与孤独症以及精神病相关——这些都是以共鸣程度差著称的不同病状。

Lack of empathy has an influence on borderline personality disorder, narcissism and psychopathy and the developmental disorder autism.
Other disorders that we'll discuss later on include acquired psychopathy, where damage to parts of your brain, particularly related to the frontal lobes, rob you of the ability to tell right from wrong.
稍后我们还将讨论些其他的障碍,包括,后天性精神紊乱,该病症是由于大脑特定区域遭受损伤,特别是额叶部分,会使你失去分辨是非的能力
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The issue of psychopathy, of people who, either due to brain damage or because they are born that way, have no moral understanding, can help us cope with questions of free will and responsibility; of the relationship or difference between mental illness and evil.
比如那些精神病人,不论是因为大脑受损而造成的,还是先天性的,并没有道德观念,可以帮助我们研究自由和责任的问题,或是研究心理疾病与邪恶的关系或区别
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Their analysis showed that bad behaviour without psychopathy has relatively little genetic component—less than a third.
ECONOMIST: Evidence that psychopaths are born, not made