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WHERE DO PSYCHOPATHS TEND TO LIVE · Inside The Criminal Mind

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  Speaker 1: I always liked to see regional differences, right what states
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  Speaker 1: have the most depression or what states have the most
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  Speaker 1: lung cancer. Today, we're going to be looking at a
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  Speaker 1: study that was done at states that have a higher
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  Speaker 1: likelihood of psychopaths and narcissists. This was a study done
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  Speaker 1: by scientists from Copenhagen. Not sure why they did one
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  Speaker 1: in the US, but they did. The researchers published their
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  Speaker 1: findings found that an individual's surroundings and upbringing play a
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  Speaker 1: significant role in shaping so called dark personality traits. Areas
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  Speaker 1: plagued by poverty, corruption, and violence tend to foster these traits.
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  Speaker 1: So some of the states that have the highest concentration
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  Speaker 1: of dark personalities included Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Nevada, South Dakota,
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  Speaker 1: and New York. Oddly enough, some of these cities, some
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  Speaker 1: of these states have some of the more violent cities,
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  Speaker 1: like Louisiana with New Orleans and New York of course
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  Speaker 1: with New York City and other places. But Nevada, says
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  Speaker 1: to cut in Texas, not really not as much, not
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  Speaker 1: relative to other places like Baltimore or the state of
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  Speaker 1: Maryland or Illinois. But conversely, the states with the lowest
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  Speaker 1: rates where Utah, Vermont, and New Hampshire, Maine, Oregon, and Alaska,
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  Speaker 1: and they do tend to be safer cities overall. To
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  Speaker 1: reach these conclusions, the researchers analyzed FBI homicide rates, data
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  Speaker 1: from the Census Bureau and Justice Department corruption convictions in
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  Speaker 1: order to make these comprehensive comparisons. The more adverse conditions
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  Speaker 1: in a society, they found, the higher the level of
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  Speaker 1: the dark factor of personality among its citizens. This applied
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  Speaker 1: both globally and within the US. The study also discussed
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  Speaker 1: strong evidence for the existence of a single disposition and
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  Speaker 1: allowing all adversive traits. The dark factor of personality offers
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  Speaker 1: a clear conceptualization of the disposition, defined as the general
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  Speaker 1: tendency to maximize one's individual utility, disregarding, accepting, or relevantly
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  Speaker 1: provoking the util for others, accompanied by both beliefs that
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  Speaker 1: serve as justifications. So let me do this again. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like selfishness, the general tendency to maximize one's
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  Speaker 1: own individual utility while disregarding, accepting, or malevolently provoking disutility
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  Speaker 1: for others. This is a company by beliefs that serve
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  Speaker 1: as justifications in societies where rules are broken without consequences,
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  Speaker 1: or where the conditions for many citizens or bad individuals
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  Speaker 1: perceive and learn that one should actually think of oneself. First,
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  Speaker 1: the study goes on humans differ in their levels of
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  Speaker 1: reverse of dark personality traits such as egoism or psychopathy.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a dimensional trait, building upon theory suggesting
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  Speaker 1: that social psychological factors co shape the development of personality traits. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a lot of this as correlational studies, so
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure the study did find countries
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  Speaker 1: like Indonesia and Mexico have higher dark factor levels than
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  Speaker 1: Denmark and New Zealand, which enjoy better societal conditions, which
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  Speaker 1: is interesting because Mexico would be considered a collectivistic country
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  Speaker 1: or in Anesia. I'm assuming Denmark might be too, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about New Zealand. The researchers admit that the
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  Speaker 1: study has some limitations, noticeably that the data does not
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  Speaker 1: account for how long participants resided in certain countries or
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  Speaker 1: if they were from there at all. Maybe they weren't
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  Speaker 1: from there or states before their personality tendencies developed. A
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  Speaker 1: criminal mastermind in New York could have moved from Ohio
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  Speaker 1: just a few years ago. It was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: limitations in the study, but it does make it interesting
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  Speaker 1: to do psychopaths aggregate in one particular area. Are they
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  Speaker 1: developed there or do they move there for opportunity. It's
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  Speaker 1: an interesting thought.