In these exciting times for people who thrive on chaos, Trump had emerged from the polluted waters of Twitter like a mutant fish, and the world could not believe its eyes.
In regular circumstances, 60 percent of criminal psychopaths released into the outside world go on to re-offend. What percentage of their psychopaths had? As it turned out: 80 percent. The Capsule had...
I think we all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We a...
I had to remind myself that it’s good for journalists to feel demeaned. It means we’re onto a story.
He said, 'You have to understand, I'm an academic. I'm not trained in dealing with masses of people. I found out through the school of hard knocks that it is better not to deal with masses of people....
At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?
sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and mo...
Success is always less funny than failure.
We’re raised to believe that deep down everyone has a conscience. At
Deciding that instant judgment was a more heroic stance than curiosity. When
We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are . And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society.
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fash...
Their puffed-out cheeks are beetroot-red, making them resemble sweaty, meat-smeared squirrels.
The sad thing was that Lindsey had incurred the Internet’s wrath because she was impudent and playful and foolhardy and outspoken. And now here she was, working with Farukh to reduce herself to safe b...
The common assumption is that public punishments died out in the new great metropolises because they’d been judged useless. Everyone was too busy being industrious to bother to trail some transgressor...
So you faked it to give Zimbardo a better study? I asked. It was completely deliberate on my part, he replied. I planned it. I mapped it out. I carried it through. It was all done for a purpose. I tho...
Serial killers ruin families,’ shrugged Bob. ‘Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal, said Allen Frances.
Practically every prime-time program is populated by people who are just the right sort of mad, and I now knew what the formula was. The right sort of mad are people who are a bit madder than we fear...
It may be somewhat paradoxical to refer to shame as a ‘feeling’, for while shame is initially painful, constant shaming leads to a deadening of feeling. Shame, like cold, is, in essence, the absence o...