If you believe that there’s a significant amount of psychopaths in politics it becomes even more important to be able to distinguish a psychopath from someone who behaves like the characters in “Yes, Minister”.
Realpolitical pressures don’t bring someone into the mindstate that’s typical for psychopathy. I heard an interview with Jon Stewert where he made the point that Hilary Clinton is not smooth when she lies. She feel the normal kind of human anxiety that a psychopath doesn’t feel when lying.
She turned from a person who was idealistic and unwilling to compromize for realpolitikal reasons when she was first lady who pushed her healthcare agenda to a person who’s less idealistic and who has no problem with realpolitikal compromize and doing what needs to be done to be powerful but she still feel the kind of emotions when lying that a psychopath doesn’t.
Being a psychopath goes beyond ruthlessly playing the game.
There was some research I saw on psychopathy in presidents/ceos, but I don’t know how reliable it is and whether they looked at simple agreeableness.
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believe that there’s a significant amount of psychopaths in politics
I was contrasting the two. I mentioned the pyschopathy study because it was the only one I heard about on the psychology of powerful people. They are distinct things, agreed.
If you believe that there’s a significant amount of psychopaths in politics it becomes even more important to be able to distinguish a psychopath from someone who behaves like the characters in “Yes, Minister”.
Realpolitical pressures don’t bring someone into the mindstate that’s typical for psychopathy.
I heard an interview with Jon Stewert where he made the point that Hilary Clinton is not smooth when she lies. She feel the normal kind of human anxiety that a psychopath doesn’t feel when lying.
She turned from a person who was idealistic and unwilling to compromize for realpolitikal reasons when she was first lady who pushed her healthcare agenda to a person who’s less idealistic and who has no problem with realpolitikal compromize and doing what needs to be done to be powerful but she still feel the kind of emotions when lying that a psychopath doesn’t.
Being a psychopath goes beyond ruthlessly playing the game.
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I was contrasting the two. I mentioned the pyschopathy study because it was the only one I heard about on the psychology of powerful people. They are distinct things, agreed.