psychopathy

基本解釋

In Damon's book, a wonderful book on psychopathy, he talks about a thirteen-year-old mugger who specialized in mugging blind people.
在Damon一本關(guān)於精神變態(tài)的書中，他談到一個(gè)13嵗的行兇劫匪,他專門行兇搶劫盲人。
These statements, and others like them, were designed to measure, respectively, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and a person’s sense of how meaningful life is.
這些以及其他類似的表達(dá)都是專門設(shè)計(jì)分別來檢測(cè)精神變態(tài)、權(quán)術(shù)主義和人生價(jià)值觀的。
Conversely, less activity in mirror systems has been linked to autism and also with psychopathy - different conditions that are both noted for low levels of empathy.
相反，反射鏡系統(tǒng)較不活躍的人則與孤獨(dú)癥以及精神病相關(guān)——這些都是以共鳴程度差著稱的不同病狀。

Lack of empathy has an influence on borderline personality disorder, narcissism and psychopathy and the developmental disorder autism.
Other disorders that we'll discuss later on include acquired psychopathy, where damage to parts of your brain, particularly related to the frontal lobes, rob you of the ability to tell right from wrong.
稍後我們還將討論些其他的障礙,包括,後天性精神紊亂,該病癥是由於大腦特定區(qū)域遭受損傷,特別是額葉部分,會(huì)使你失去分辨是非的能力
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The issue of psychopathy, of people who, either due to brain damage or because they are born that way, have no moral understanding, can help us cope with questions of free will and responsibility; of the relationship or difference between mental illness and evil.
比如那些精神病人,不論是因爲(wèi)大腦受損而造成的,還是先天性的,竝沒有道德觀唸,可以幫助我們研究自由和責(zé)任的問題,或是研究心理疾病與邪惡的關(guān)系或區(qū)別
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Their analysis showed that bad behaviour without psychopathy has relatively little genetic component—less than a third.
ECONOMIST: Evidence that psychopaths are born, not made