Sociopath
noun
A person who doesn't care about or understand others' feelings, often breaking rules or laws without feeling guilty.
The cold-hearted criminal was described as a sociopath by the psychologist.
Often appears as...
- chronic sociopath
- diagnosed sociopath
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Disapproving
noun
A person who doesn't care about or understand others' feelings, often breaking rules or laws without feeling guilty.
The cold-hearted criminal was described as a sociopath by the psychologist.
Often appears as...
- chronic sociopath
- diagnosed sociopath
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Sociopath has a strong negative undertone, implying a lack of morality or empathy in behavior.
After the fraud scandal, the CEO was labeled a sociopath by the media.
Pro Tip 2/3Use with Care
Use the term carefully, as it's a serious psychological label often misused to insult someone.
His reckless actions made some believe he was a sociopath, though he wasn't diagnosed.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Clinical Term
While used in everyday language, 'sociopath' isn't an official term in clinical psychology anymore.
Despite common usage, 'sociopath' isn't found in the current clinical diagnostic manuals.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Sociopath has a strong negative undertone, implying a lack of morality or empathy in behavior.
After the fraud scandal, the CEO was labeled a sociopath by the media.
Pro Tip 2/3Use with Care
Use the term carefully, as it's a serious psychological label often misused to insult someone.
His reckless actions made some believe he was a sociopath, though he wasn't diagnosed.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Clinical Term
While used in everyday language, 'sociopath' isn't an official term in clinical psychology anymore.
Despite common usage, 'sociopath' isn't found in the current clinical diagnostic manuals.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Sociopath has a strong negative undertone, implying a lack of morality or empathy in behavior.
After the fraud scandal, the CEO was labeled a sociopath by the media.
Pro Tip 2/3Use with Care
Use the term carefully, as it's a serious psychological label often misused to insult someone.
His reckless actions made some believe he was a sociopath, though he wasn't diagnosed.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Clinical Term
While used in everyday language, 'sociopath' isn't an official term in clinical psychology anymore.
Despite common usage, 'sociopath' isn't found in the current clinical diagnostic manuals.
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How civilization could...
to destroy the world, if only they could get access and the means, that would be good. In this image that you asked us to do you're imagining these drones flying around the world with facial recognition. When they spot someone showing signs of sociopathic behavior, they shower them with love, they fix them.
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How one tweet can ruin...
And, "Jonah Lehrer is just a frigging sociopath." That last word is a very human thing to do, to dehumanize the people we hurt. It's because we want to destroy people but not feel bad about it. Imagine if this was an actual court, and the accused was in the dark, begging for another chance,
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4 Kinds of Regret – and...
And here's what it tells you. I'll save you the trouble of reading a half century of social science. The research tells us that everybody has regrets, regrets make us human. Truly, the only people without regrets are five-year-olds, people with brain damage and sociopaths.
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Kathryn Schulz: Don't...
Because the inability to experience regret is actually one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths. It's also, by the way, a characteristic of certain kinds of brain damage. So people who have damage to their orbital frontal cortex seem to be unable to feel regret
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Listening to shame -...
Chris it's gonna feel the same everyone sitting in here knows the warm wash of shame we're pretty sure that the only people who don't experience shame are people who have no capacity for connection or empathy which means yes I have a little shame no I'm a sociopath
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The deadly genius of...
You will read that Los Zetas is this assortment of sociopaths that terrify the cities that they enter and they silence the press, and this is somewhat true, or mostly true. But this is the result of a very careful branding and business strategy.
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How young people join...
In the aftermath of horrible atrocities and attacks in places like Belgium, France, but all over the world, sometimes it's easier for us to think, "Well, these must be sociopaths, these must be naturally violent individuals.
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It's OK to feel...
I have been, and I think you would have to be either a sociopath or totally enlightened not to be feeling anxiety at a moment like this. So I would say that the first thing that I would want to encourage everybody to do
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Daniel Goleman: Why...
I think it's quite apt. It's our empathy, it's our tuning in which separates us from Machiavellians or sociopaths. I have a brother-in-law who's an expert on horror and terror --
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The dirty secret of...
Rule greed is not good. Being rapacious doesn't make you a capitalist, it makes you a sociopath.
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How civilization could...
to destroy the world, if only they could get access and the means, that would be good. In this image that you asked us to do you're imagining these drones flying around the world with facial recognition. When they spot someone showing signs of sociopathic behavior, they shower them with love, they fix them.
Video examples
How one tweet can ruin...
And, "Jonah Lehrer is just a frigging sociopath." That last word is a very human thing to do, to dehumanize the people we hurt. It's because we want to destroy people but not feel bad about it. Imagine if this was an actual court, and the accused was in the dark, begging for another chance,
Video examples
4 Kinds of Regret – and...
And here's what it tells you. I'll save you the trouble of reading a half century of social science. The research tells us that everybody has regrets, regrets make us human. Truly, the only people without regrets are five-year-olds, people with brain damage and sociopaths.
Video examples
Kathryn Schulz: Don't...
Because the inability to experience regret is actually one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths. It's also, by the way, a characteristic of certain kinds of brain damage. So people who have damage to their orbital frontal cortex seem to be unable to feel regret
Video examples
Listening to shame -...
Chris it's gonna feel the same everyone sitting in here knows the warm wash of shame we're pretty sure that the only people who don't experience shame are people who have no capacity for connection or empathy which means yes I have a little shame no I'm a sociopath
Video examples
The deadly genius of...
You will read that Los Zetas is this assortment of sociopaths that terrify the cities that they enter and they silence the press, and this is somewhat true, or mostly true. But this is the result of a very careful branding and business strategy.
Video examples
How young people join...
In the aftermath of horrible atrocities and attacks in places like Belgium, France, but all over the world, sometimes it's easier for us to think, "Well, these must be sociopaths, these must be naturally violent individuals.
Video examples
It's OK to feel...
I have been, and I think you would have to be either a sociopath or totally enlightened not to be feeling anxiety at a moment like this. So I would say that the first thing that I would want to encourage everybody to do
Video examples
Daniel Goleman: Why...
I think it's quite apt. It's our empathy, it's our tuning in which separates us from Machiavellians or sociopaths. I have a brother-in-law who's an expert on horror and terror --
Video examples
The dirty secret of...
Rule greed is not good. Being rapacious doesn't make you a capitalist, it makes you a sociopath.
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George T. Conway III
American Lawyer
Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself - not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself.
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Tom Malinowski
There are norms that preserve some equilibrium between chaos and stability in the world; that keep sociopaths like Assad from undermining that equilibrium, and the sense of security without which the freedoms we enjoy cannot exist.
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Abby Martin
American Journalist
It's really shocking to see what the military can do, strip you of any personality, turn you into an aggressive, sociopathic sadist before even going into a battlefield.
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Ramy Youssef
American Comedian
I think if you make a show where you try to make a character look good, not only is it kind of weird, but it's sociopathic.
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Laurell K. Hamilton
American Writer
You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.
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Jessica Rothe
American Actress
I would love to play a sociopath or, like, an unreliable narrator.
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Sarah Cooper
Jamaican Comedian
If you're a sociopath, you don't get emotional cues.
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Jeff Lindsay
American Playwright
Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.
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Shane Dawson
American Entertainer
Anybody could be a sociopath. Anybody.
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Emily VanCamp
Canadian Actress
I don't have sociopathic tendencies!
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George T. Conway III
American Lawyer
Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself - not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself.
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Tom Malinowski
There are norms that preserve some equilibrium between chaos and stability in the world; that keep sociopaths like Assad from undermining that equilibrium, and the sense of security without which the freedoms we enjoy cannot exist.
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Abby Martin
American Journalist
It's really shocking to see what the military can do, strip you of any personality, turn you into an aggressive, sociopathic sadist before even going into a battlefield.
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Ramy Youssef
American Comedian
I think if you make a show where you try to make a character look good, not only is it kind of weird, but it's sociopathic.
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Laurell K. Hamilton
American Writer
You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.
Quote examples
Jessica Rothe
American Actress
I would love to play a sociopath or, like, an unreliable narrator.
Quote examples
Sarah Cooper
Jamaican Comedian
If you're a sociopath, you don't get emotional cues.
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Jeff Lindsay
American Playwright
Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.
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Shane Dawson
American Entertainer
Anybody could be a sociopath. Anybody.
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Emily VanCamp
Canadian Actress
I don't have sociopathic tendencies!
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