(1) Franklin was a manipulative murderer and quite possibly a sociopath .

(2) I see u2018evilu2019 being the actions of a person who chooses to be a sociopath , someone who knows right and wrong and chooses wrong.

(3) The term antisocial personality is often used interchangeably with psychopath or sociopath and is connotative of many forms of deviant behavior.

(4) He or she may be a sociopath , a psychopath, or simply a good liar.

(5) There's no universally agreed upon difference between the word sociopath and psychopath.

(6) While I'm well aware I have many mental issues, I know I can never be a sociopath because guilt and shame are my two oldest friends.

(7) Jason Soon has an interesting post drawing attention to research suggesting a link between psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and abnormal brain development.

(8) His borderline sociopathic behaviour leads him into violent confrontations, wherein he's ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

(9) The Card Perseveration Task was developed by Siegel to assist in measuring pathology in sociopaths , specifically, the apparent inability to respond to punishment.

(10) Some violent offenders are not sociopathic or psychopathic, yet probably about 20 percent of the prison population is diagnosable as being psychopathic.

(11) Internet discussion groups at times appear to be founts of perspicacity and wisdom, at other times the ultimate refuge for sociopaths releasing years of pent-up frustration.

(12) But what's not clear is if this is pathological lying to an extreme, so that it indicates actually a character flaw, anti-social personality or sociopathy which is found in many criminals.

(13) If these defects lie in all of us, which of course they do to some extent, then looking at a more comprehensive list of symptoms for sociopathy and psychopathy might lead the way.

(14) Modern scholarship has shown Lucrezia to be a rather unfortunate young woman who was the victim of her mad brother's sociopathy and her father's ruthless ambition.

(15) Some individuals may well have a genetic propensity for aggression or for mental instability - or even for sociopathic behavior.

(16) Professor Kets de Vries says the world can neatly be divided into three distinct behavioural groups: sociopaths , psychopaths and what he calls u2018normopathsu2019, or excessively normal people.

(17) With the exception of sociopaths , who are expert liars, most people sound tense, their voices highly pitched, when they fib.

(18) No society has yet been able to free itself of sociopaths , extreme bigots, and aggressive personalities.

(19) Even highly skilled mental health professionals are often fooled by sociopaths , and the narcissistic behavior they exhibit is extraordinarily effective in manipulating and controlling their victims.

(20) Some people are clearly sociopaths while others are so delusional that it is clearly unfair to expect them to behave in a rational manner.

(21) The complaint seems to be that the majority of the people leaving comments are negative creeps, violent sociopaths or people with no sense of decorum, politeness or appropriateness.

(22) I have learned that these people are sociopaths with no thought whatsoever for what happens to other creatures.

(23) Dramatic mental failures of this sort shade into failures of empathy, a deficit found in many sociopaths , who also show reduced function of the frontal cortices.

(24) Isn't consistently showing a lack of remorse or regret symptomatic of psychopathy or sociopathy ?

(25) For example, prospectively matching alcoholic patients to cognitive behavioral therapy or interactional therapy based on levels of sociopathy and psychiatric severity was found to reduce negative consequences of drinking.

(26) While the film is engrossing, its bleak message doesn't resonate for long because we've heard it before: society gets the homicidal sociopaths it deserves and there's plenty of blame to spread around.

(27) Psycopaths or sociopaths are not mad, they have personality disorders which cannot be cured as they are ingrained into a person's psyche.

(28) He's grown into a troubled and sociopathic adult.

(29) Indeed, these very same people are the most vicious sociopaths when it comes to beating down, and destroying the careers of, talented people below them who they perceive as a threat.

(30) But the claim that some sociopaths are born does not preclude the possibility that some sociopaths are made.