could be your difficult niehbour, a bully, a compulsive liar at work
2006-11-01 05:56:28 · 9 answers · asked by SIMON T 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
A psychopath is someone who has no regard for others (not a complete definition). There are many white-coallar psychopaths. Some of these break laws, but many can get what they want - power over others - without breaking the law. There are psychopaths in many roles that give people power over others, even doctors and lawyers.
2006-11-01 06:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
3 out of 10
2006-11-01 14:04:23 · answer #2 · answered by Lone Eagle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2/10
2006-11-01 13:58:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
.1 out of 10 people or 1 person out of one hundred people
There is a 20-item personality evaluation tool called the Psychopathy Checklist by Robert Hare that is used in making a clinical diagnosis of psychopath.
1% of the general population fits that description - an individual that is not burdened by a conscience.
Basically, that 20-item list describes an individual that has deficient capacities for 3 qualities: for empathy, for trust, and for affection.
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2006-11-01 16:58:01 · answer #4 · answered by metronome 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no way to answer that question, really.
You just never know who you're sitting near in a restaurant, or what's REALLY going on in the cubicle next to you.
It also depends on how you define 'psychopath'. Just because someone is eccentric doesn't make them crazy, and each individual has his or her own foibles.
Sometimes a life-changing event will make a non-psycho rapidly into a full-blown psycho.
But if I had to guess, I'd say one out of fifty.
2006-11-01 14:06:49 · answer #5 · answered by Sweet! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IMHO, everyone is a psychopath to some degree. The yardstick by which mental stability is measured is by the prevailing "norm", or the general (mostly unspoken and/or unwritten) consensus of how Reality is defined.
example: if everybody saw pink elephants before their eyes, crapped in the streets, and considered "Please" to be an insult, the few people who didn't see free-floating animals, used the bathroom, and respected the word "please" would be seen as insane and undesirable.
at one point or another, we all experience traits that are indicative of insanity - what people judge by are the outward appearances.
all this being established, i think everybody is psychopathic, just not everyone hides it so well.
2006-11-01 14:45:59 · answer #6 · answered by saturndescends 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has been said that there is one psychopath in every 5.
2006-11-01 13:59:31 · answer #7 · answered by Clay O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 out of 10. but less then that actually seriously act on it.
2006-11-01 14:59:34 · answer #8 · answered by Jeanne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you consider Psychotic...
2006-11-01 13:59:53 · answer #9 · answered by I LIKA YOU MUCH 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋