It Seems that Psychopaths' Brains Are Different Not only in How They Function, but Also in Size.

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Small size, but great danger? If we support anyone who wants to hear that it is above all what is inside that matters, the appearance sometimes has more importance than we imagine. It happens that our physics has a direct impact on our personality. This is in any case what some studies suggest on the size of men. In research published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, researchers have been interested in the influence of the …

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Researchers from Jülich, Aachen and the USA, using high-resolution brain images, have searched for structural peculiarities in the brain of psychopaths – and have found it.It is an ancient idea and a dangerous prejudice: that the "evil" in the face, the skull, perhaps even directly in the brain of a human being can be read.In the 19th century, the so-called phrenology tried to conclude from the shape of the head on the character: a pseudo-scient…

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Psychopathy is a much-discussed concept, yet there is debate about what core traits make someone a psychopath. A new study has found that certain parts of the brain associated with behavior, emotion regulation, and impulse control are smaller in psychopaths. And previous research has sought to more thoroughly separate the traits that are truly psychopathic from those that, while commonly labeled as such, actually have little to do with it.