It always baffles me when I see 'murder' mentioned on the news...
Have these psycho's got different brain patterns to the rest of us??....
2007-06-07 02:11:07 · 27 answers · asked by wgummidge 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
In terms of Psychology it's possibly something like this:
Biological Approach: Due to hormone imbalance or chromosome defect, e.g. XYY (if male) instead of XY.
Behaviourist Approach: They've learned through other people's actions - perhaps influenced by a film or game.
Cognitive Approach: Stimulus-Organism-Response - they've had a stimulus that led to murder - perhaps a bad relationship (stimulus), not dealing with it very well (organism), and then murdering that person, or taking it out on somebody else (response).
Humanistic Approach: Free will - they had the option to choose whether or not they murdered the person, and they chose to do it.
Psychoanalytic Approach: Okay, for this, just think of anything crazy and Freud would agree with you on it, if he were still alive.
So, it can be almost anything; it can be different reasons in each murderer, and it can be explained differently according to each psychologist etc.
2007-06-07 02:52:17 · answer #1 · answered by .єmιlч. .ωєmιlч. ~♥~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have these psycho's got different brain patterns to the rest of us?? Yes I assume so.
From what I have read, some do take pleasure, and even get an orgasm from murder/giving pain/disrupting the lives of people/etc.
I think murder because of hatred would also come into the pleasure bracket.
I think.
2007-06-07 10:59:50 · answer #2 · answered by jupiteress 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel just anyone can turn into a murderer if the circumstances demand so. Do you think that the defence personnel have a different brain pattern that the civilian? They are ordinary people from amongst us who chose this profession and killing enemy is akin to murder, only motives are different.
2007-06-07 09:32:01 · answer #3 · answered by P'quaint! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
~~~ There are some horrible people in the world who are screaming to be killed. Some people around them may just snap one day and do it. I've had homicidal thoughts a fews times in my life , which was quite disturbing considering I won't even kill flies. I hated this person with such an intensity that I came up with several ways in which to do him/her in. The getting rid of the body problem was a major roadblock. Or my common sense kicking in. So I talked the problem over with a trusted relative and he suggested cutting this person off totally from my life, which I did. Now somebody else can kill the creep and go to prison enstead of me. ~~~
2007-06-07 10:07:14 · answer #4 · answered by donelle g. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mental illness, deep hate for the victim, or pleasure. Some people have depression and say "voices" make them murder someone. Others are schizophrenic and the person they are about to kill appears to them as a demon or a devil, others are very mentally ill an enjoy killing. There are very rare conditions that include very religious people that claim God ordered them in a vision or a dream to kill the person..
2007-06-07 09:17:51 · answer #5 · answered by εïз 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every one is capable of murder at some time in there life, I know that I am, rage is a very powerful medium for murder.
2007-06-07 09:42:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it seems that as children they tend to show cruel tendency's like being nasty to animals and also not interacting with other children and so if they don't help they grow up without understanding the value of life...also they could have unpressed sexual tensions ...i can understand murdering in a moment of madness as you have to be mad to take a life and people sometimes act without thinking but somehow we just vent in our minds and never carry out murder as such as we know its wrong ..but with some that message doesn't interact with the mind and so they carry it out for what ever reason they find to justified their deed...but to kill someone in cold blood is something that is not human that's more of a animal instinct so that make us different i suppose from being just an animal to being human...
2007-06-07 09:25:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Revenge. Mental Unstability. Pressure. Lots of things
2007-06-07 09:14:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know the People who thrive on pettyness +repetetiveness
and being really antagonising from dusk till dawn.
Well.!...I Could easily enact out a Texas CSaw massacre
on some of those tw.ats out there
2007-06-07 10:20:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No- I believe in the right circumstances, anyone and everyone is capable of murder. Whether is be out of spite, love, hate, or fear for your own safety. We have to remember that although we are domesticated and civilized, we still have alot of basic animal instincts... and that seems to be one of them...
(Serial Killers are obviously excluded from this generalization)
2007-06-07 10:14:21 · answer #10 · answered by Enchanted One 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋