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LibraryCin edited the memorable quotes of The Sociopath Next Door Saturday, November 3, 2012.
- reordered the memorable quotes.
- Added a quotation: “theorists who propose that North American culture, which holds individualism as a central value, tends to foster the development of antisocial behavior, and also to disguise it”
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LibraryCin edited the memorable quotes of The Sociopath Next Door Saturday, November 3, 2012.
- reordered the memorable quotes.
- Added a quotation: “Apparently cultural influences play a very important role in the development (or not) of sociopathy in any given population”
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LibraryCin edited the memorable quotes of The Sociopath Next Door Saturday, November 3, 2012.
- Added a quotation: “The game is the thing. The prize to be won can run the gamut from world domination to a free lunch, but it is always the same game--controlling, making others jump, "winning."”
- Added a quotation: “Sociopathy is more than just the absence of conscience, with alone would be tragic enough. Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.”
- Added a quotation: “People without conscience experience emotions very differently from you and me, and they do not experience love at all, or any other kind of positive attachment to their fellow human being”
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LibraryCin edited the memorable quotes of The Sociopath Next Door Saturday, November 3, 2012.
- Added a quotation: “Sopciopathy stands alone as a "disease" that causes no dis-ease for the person who has it, no subjective discomfort. Sociopaths are often quite satisfied with themselves and with their lives, and perhaps for this very reason there is no effective "treatment."”
- Added a quotation: “this is exactly what happens to the human mind when emotional attachment and sonsciecne are missing. Life is reduced to a contest, and other human beings seem to be nothing more than game pieces, to be moved about, used as shields, or ejected”
- Added a quotation: “Controlling others--winning--is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else”
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LibraryCin edited the memorable quotes of The Sociopath Next Door Saturday, November 3, 2012.
- Added a quotation: “Except for the psychopathic monsters we sometimes see on television, whose actions are too horrific to explain away, conscienceless people are nearly always invisible to us.”
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donatella edited the memorable quotes of The Sociopath Next Door Wednesday, June 20, 2012.
- Added a quotation: “He has, "a greater than normal need for stimulation," and so he often takes big risks, and he guiltlessly charms others into taking them, too. He has a history of undocumented childhood "behavior problems", obscured by his parents social privelege. He is deceitful and manipulative. He can be impulsively aggressive with a "reckless disregard for the safety of others", ...He is not geniuinely interested in bonding with anyone, he is consistently irresponsible, and he has no remorse.”
- Added a quotation: “Crocodile tears at will are a sociopathic trademark.”
- Added a quotation: “I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else.”
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