{"id":122823,"date":"2014-04-06T22:48:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=122823"},"modified":"2014-04-10T15:17:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T09:47:32","slug":"psychopaths-how-can-you-spot-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/psychopaths-how-can-you-spot-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychopaths: How Can You Spot One?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline description\"><strong>We think of psychopaths as killers, alien, outside society. But, says the scientist who has spent his life studying them, you could have one for a colleague, a friend \u2013 or a spouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline description\">There are a few things we take for granted in social interactions with people. We presume that we see the world in roughly the same way, that we all know certain basic facts, that words mean the same things to you as they do to me. And we assume that we have pretty similar ideas of right and wrong.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline description\">Read more in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/10737827\/Psychopaths-how-can-you-spot-one.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Telegraph<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline description\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Anders-Behring-Breivik-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52063\" alt=\"Anders Behring Breivik\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Anders-Behring-Breivik-008.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Anders-Behring-Breivik-008.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Anders-Behring-Breivik-008-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":52063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Psychopaths: How Can You Spot One? 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