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Originally Posted by ocdwifeofsociopath
well, here are the things we do know. In psychology and philosophy, emotion is a subjective, conscious experience that is characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. Emotion is often associated and considered reciprocally influential with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation,[ citation needed] as well as influenced by hormones and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, oxytocin, cortisol and GABA. Wikipedia) Empathy is an emotion. the brain makes the body respond with emotions. They are linked. I think, there is a break there in psychopaths/sociopaths. Here's a link, I don't know if it's valid. I don't have time to do any more research right now. But if this "new research" is true, I think this is an indication of what we are discussing. Psychopathy linked to brain abnormalities | KurzweilAI |
wrong empathy is not 'an emotion' empathy is emotion for others, people get empathy and emotion mixed up and it's stupid thing to do. There is nothing anywhere that ever suggested that physcopaths do not feel emotion but dumb people confuse empathy with emotion and generalise that physcopath
s have no emotion which is stupid and totally false, no being can exsist without emotion and noone would bother to kill or harm anyone unless they had emotions- there would be no point. Physcopaths can have a lack of empathy but do not lack emotion at all, in fact they can probably feel more emotion than average people which explains physcopaths who kill for power, thrills,sexual release or other emotion based reasons