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Old Jul 02, 2011, 11:23 PM
Anonymous32970
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Originally Posted by Open Eyes View Post
That is confusing, as a psycopath you do not have the capability to feel any remorse or empathy for anyone. But as an antisocial you can have the full spectrum of feelings. That doesnt make sense either you can feel the senses of feelings as described or you can't.

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Open Eyes
Except the notion that a decent amount of antisocials appear quite callous and one of the criteria, a (seeming) lack of remorse, the presence or absence of emotion has little to do with a diagnosis of ASPD.

Psychopathy, while not a diagnosis recognized in the DSM-IV, can be determined by the Psychopathy Checklist Revised (Hare). This scale measures both antisocial behaviours and interpersonal/affective traits, which include:
(courtesy of Wikipedia)