NEW STUDY ON FEMALE PSYCHOPATHS

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the psychopath Podcast, apodcast that discusses everything about psychopathy. Here's
your host, doctor Carlos. Researchersare providing new insight into female psychopathy.

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The conventional model says about nine tosix to nine male to female raceiows which
you usually get regards to psychopathy,but now in you study so as it
might be actually closer to two toone. The research indicates a societal gender
biases could have obscured the true naturein prevalence of female psychopaths, who often

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employed manipulation and seduction rather than violenceto achieve their goals. Some of the
key facts of the study are genderbias identification. Traditional psychopathy measures designed around
male criminal behavior failed to capture themore manipulative and seductive tactics employed by female
psychopaths. This is one thing wehave noticed that females you can make crimes

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differently than males. Even serial killersthat are females killed differently, that tend
to poison more than others. Implicationsfor society and business the end of estimation.
The underestimation of female psychopaths has seriousrepercussions for the criminal justice system as
well as the organization leadership decisions thatare made. Doctor Clive Body of Anglia

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Ruskin University argues that studies maybe failingto identify these female psychopaths kind of goes
redundant back around the then again incircles. So one of the things again
is the manipulation component and the sexualseduction. These are some of the traits
that they may be falling under forfemale psychopathy. So the moral of the

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story is maybe there should be anothercategory now for female because of the fact
that some of these characteristics that wenormally know if the psychopathy is ar characteristic
to male and not females. Soeven though females display some of the key
traits such as being insincere, deceitful, antagonistic, unempathetic, lacking, and
emotional depth, these are seen asmale characteristics, may not be labeled as

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such when you look at them asfemales. Female psychopaths tend to use words
rather than violence to achieve their aims, differing from how male psychopaths tend to
operate. If female psychopathy expresses differentlythan, measures designed to capture and identify
male criminal psychopaths may be inadequate itidentifying female non criminal or criminal psychopaths as

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well. Female psychopaths, though wherenow while not as severely psychopathic as often
as males are, have nevertheless beenunderestimated. So the research is interesting that
a whole lot got out of there, except really that the characteristics are slightly
different. This is some of thearguments they have with adult ADHD, however,
presents in females and males. Somesay it's not even has anything to

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do with it. Maybe they're notreally the same disorder, maybe they're different
disorders. And the debate of disordersand how he identify them, I guess
we'll rage on