{"id":377,"date":"2012-09-22T20:59:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T20:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=377"},"modified":"2012-09-22T20:59:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T20:59:32","slug":"what-makes-a-psychopath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2012\/09\/22\/what-makes-a-psychopath\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Psychopath?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/09\/120920115739.htm\">ScienceDaily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell, which points to inefficient processing in the front part of the brain&#8230; the area largely responsible for functions such as planning, impulse control and acting in accordance with social norms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interesting. I&#8217;ve read before that psychopaths seem to have no control over their own impulses. It&#8217;s as if a psychopath is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego#Id\">Freudian Id<\/a> with no ego or superego. It looks like that&#8217;s about right, and what causes psychopathy is a defect in the front part of the brain, which controls impulse, and as a side-job processes smell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via ScienceDaily: &#8220;People with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell, which points to inefficient processing in the front&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}