Psychopathy may be two different things, not one: in 115 ordinary adults, one type's attention locked hard onto the images that unsettle most people, while the other barely flinched at them

Psychopathy may be two different things, not one: in 115 ordinary adults, one type's attention locked hard onto the images that unsettle most people, while the other barely flinched at them

Psychopathy tends to get talked about as a single thing, a switch a person has either flipped or not. A new study of ordinary adults suggests that picture is too tidy. When researchers measured what people’s brains and bodies actually did while they looked at disturbing images, the two darker sides of the psychopathic personality, the fearless one and the cold one, did not behave alike. They showed up as two different signals. One trait, the fea…