What about people changing...can violent offenders, killers, rapists, etc. actually "change" while they are in prison, or do they just get a PhD in dysfunctional and impulsive behavior? My son, Patrick, can "talk a good game of remorse and redemption" to the parole board, and yet, when his lawyer got him a "psychological exam" he…
There is more and more evidence as fMRIs and other OBJECTIVE evidence shows that the tendency for psychopathy is genetic to some extent. The study of identical twins separated at birth and raised by different families bears out that if one child is a psychopath, there is an 80% chance the other one will be…
I read a story today in the Daily Mail about how people who are too optimistic are more likely to get scammed. THE PRICE OF BEING OPTIMISTIC: STUDY FINDS PEOPLE WHO 'SEE THE GLASS HALF FULL' ARE MORE LIKELY TO FALL VICTIM TO SCAMS. (I had trouble putting the link here but if you google…
I have to laugh sometimes, because of my social background, bad deeds of any family member have been well guarded secrets. We never "aired our dirty laundry in public" by letting the neighbors know about them. If as a kid I wanted to do something that was viewed as "not OK" I was told, "You…
