You’ll want to watch this video all the way to the end before you befriend, date, marry or work for anyone!
How to Spot a psychopath…You know the kind — superbly charming, handsome, pretty, seemingly kind, humble, yet a complete psychopath.
The problem is that psychopaths are good at deception. They will tell you what you want to hear, and lie straight to your face, and their body language can exude such confidence that you have no way to know that they are a complete fraud.
But fortunately, scientists have recently discovered a definitive way to know whether a person is a psychopath or not. Researchers at the University of Cardiff in the U.K. have discovered a rather simple test to determine whether a person is a psychopath.
They examined a normal group of people, and a known psychopathic group of criminals. They showed both groups disturbing images such as pictures of mutilated bodies, crime scenes, vicious dogs, and other “scary” images. The normal criminals had the normal reaction of enlarged pupils. But the psychopaths showed no physical change. Their pupils did not dilate, but stayed exactly the same.
Normal human beings, when threatened, agitated or excited display dilated pupils. This is normal. It is a part of our fight or flight reaction. It helps us focus and get ready for battle or escape. Psychopaths however, are seemingly unmoved by these kinds of frightening pictures, and threatening situations.
So how do you use this to your advantage in determining whether your new boss, your new date, or a friend is a psychopath. That’s not going to be easy. Maybe you show them a disgusting picture, or take them to see a horror movie, and watch their eyes very closely. That might be hard to do in a dark movie theater, so you may have watch it at home.
Maybe you tell them an emotional or scary story, and look very carefully at their eyes. The eyes don’t lie because pupil dilation is something that we cannot consciously control. It is an autonomic reflex or involuntary reaction – like your heartbeat. It happens without you consciously controlling it.
There’s another related study that may be helpful. Researchers at Cornell University found that psychopaths were twice as likely as normal people to talk about the following three subjects:
Sex
Money
Food
For some reason, psychopaths talked in detail about the food they ate on the day of their crime. Now does this mean that everyone who talks about sex, money or food is a psychopath? NO – but if someone you know appears to be obsessed with these three subjects and does not also talk much about things like spirituality, family or religion (subjects that psychopaths tend not to talk about) – then you may be just be talking to a psychopath.
Also, there is online test that you or anyone you want can take to determine whether how psycho-pathological you are. The link is in the description.
Remember though, while there are a lot of bad apples, no doubt about it…but they are in the minority. Most people are still good and well-intentioned. And one of the challenges we have in life is not to let the few bad apples make us cynical about the world we live in.
