ALL PSYCHOPATHS HAVE THESE TRAITS?!

Callous, manipulative, hostile. All of these dark personality traits, that's what they share. >> Can they be cured? There's this sort of dark personality. I guess it was a triad. It >> was a triad. Now we get a tetrad. >> Is that what this is? >> Yes. Psychopathy is a set of personality traits of a superficial charm. They're quite manipulative and they tend to be pretty grandio. So, they've got a pretty inflated view of themselves. A lack of remorse uh and guilt for harming other people. They tend not to take responsibility for their own actions. In addition, they tend to be uh pretty impulsive. They're not really planning

far out into the future. So, they might, you know, kind of mooch off of a family members or a romantic partner. Lastly, they tend to break a lot of rules, workplace rules or social norms. This could also be laws. Machavelianism. They tend to be pretty cynical about other people. They tell a lot of lies and they try to like manipulate people. They might learn a little tidbit about you, Stephen. They'll be like, "You know what? I'm just going to like put that in my back pocket when I need to manipulate or like blackmail you in the future." Next one is narcissism. These are people who tend to be very entitled and they're

very willing to exploit other people in order to get what they think they deserve. Very relentless kind of self focus. Sadism, they take pleasure in other people's pain. You could do that in incredibly like gruesome, horrifying ways. Or you could just be like pushing people's buttons online trying to get people upset. They all share three things. They are callous, so they don't care about other people. They're manipulative, so they're willing to lie and cheat to get what they want. And they're hostile toward other people. So that's kind of like the core of all of these traits. That's what they share. >> Are they good at hiding it? >> Yes. Some of the earliest descriptions

of psychopathy described it as like a mask of sanity. They can seem quite kind of normal on the surface, but underneath the hood, you see that they're not running the same kind of operating system that you are. >> Can they be cured? >> Some change is possible. Some being an operative word there. Most of the research we have on on psychopathy comes from criminal offenders. They're not particularly motivated. They don't particularly care about other people. If they do consistently engage in cognitive behavioral therapies, you can reduce the likelihood that they will reoffend. When

it comes to lower levels of these traits, research by Nathan Hudson had people do these agreeableness challenges. He would just like ping them on their smartphone every day and would say like, "Oh, you should give a compliment to a friend, buy coffee for the person behind you in line at the cafe today." these little things where people were encouraged to kind of be kind, be helpful to other people. People who actually followed through on that did report having lower levels of these traits after 4 months than at the