Private Joker wrote:it's not that psychopaths can't feel empathy, but as your article states, it's that it appears to be turned off by default(the switch). Here's another quote from article "But the research does not go into whether the study's psychpathic participants could actually feel empathy on demand, rather than just regions of their brains being activated.
Private Joker wrote:The quote you are referring to can be found in the article you provided. Some of the information in the article you provided is in fact at odds with the one I provided. My article clearly states that subjects with severe psychopathy in prison cannot empathize with others pain, in fact it's their pleasure centers that are activated. So which one is correct. Shall we say yours because you say so. You're kidding right?
"When participants imagined pain in others, these regions failed to become active in high psychopaths. In a sadistic twist, when imagining others in pain, psychopaths actually showed an increased response in the ventral striatum, an area known to be involved in pleasure."
Your arguments are based on the article you provided, but my article states that the same brain regions were in fact not activated, rendering your arguments ineffective. Articles don't agree. Could it be possible that the author of your article misunderstood the study?
Beyond Repute wrote:There is a difference between:
1) me imagining you in pain
2) me watching a video of you in pain and consciously trying to feel what you're feeling
crystal_richardson_ wrote:I doubt this would work on psychopaths and narcissists though, because their problem is not one of under stimulation I don't think of the reward centre, or attentional... although I think someone posted a study once on the Aspd forum suggesting that psychopaths DID have empathy when they focused on the distress of others....
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