Name: Why do some people become psychopaths? (30 Jan 2014)
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A very warm welcome to today's UCL Lunch Hour lecture.

It is my great pleasure to introduce Essi Viding,

professor of Developmental Psychopathology

Professor Viding's lecture for us today is entitled,

People are fascinated by what makes these individuals

to at times sensationalize the condition and the description

that these individuals really do capture the public imagination

is that they have featured in a number of popular films.

a character from Buckham [assumed spelling] Films

and he's very impulsive and he's also entirely unconcerned

about the impact of his behavior on other people

of a child who's not capable of forming attachment relationships

with his parents who's cruel to animals and cruel

to younger children who ends up by the end of the film

and the book that it's based on becoming a killer.

He kills family members and also people at his school.

We have Anton Chigurh who's an absolutely chilling contract

killer in the current Coen Brothers film,

And if anyone has seen the film, I think one of very scary things

about observing this character is when you see shots

and there really is no emotion coming back

And then there's probably everyone's favorite psychopath

from movies, Hannibal Lecter from the Silence

of the Lamb film; and he is again, a very good example

of a psychopathic character in that he's entirely void

of empathy for other people and he's also extremely skillful

at manipulating other people to his own ends.

of the general public what springs to mind

And real-life serial killers include characters

He was very bright and extremely handsome, and he often posed

as somebody who was in a position of authority or someone

who was very reliable to entice these women to come with him,

and then he murdered them in a very cruel way.

And people think that he actually may have committed many

And interestingly his defense lawyer didn't have a lot

of good things to say about him either and said

that he was the very definition of heartless evil.

So this was a man who was able to be very charming,

was able to convince other people to come with him,

but he actually turned out to be somebody

who felt absolutely nothing for his victims and didn't seem

to really feel any guilt for what he had done.

But, of course, not all psychopaths are serial killers.

that define an individual with psychopathy?

Well, one of the most prominent characteristics is their lack

So they simply do not feel bad about the things they have done.

They may sometimes say that they do if they perceive

that as getting them something that they want

But it's very clear from the way they behave and --

that they do not actually experience remorse

They don't feel bad about what they have done.

Their emotions appear ingenuine and often very short lived.

They don't form typical attachment relationships.

They don't look after the people around them.

So if you meet these individuals for the first time,

They may seem very gregarious, very charming, very nice.

But once you get to know them for a longer period of time

They often have a grandiose sense of self worth.

They're pathological liars and they are typically very good

at manipulating other people to their own ends.

As a developmental psychologist I'm very interested

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