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Are People Born Psychopaths?
This isn’t about people, but the elements of psychopathy
As someone who writes about psychology, although this isn’t generally the type of topic I write about, its an interesting one. This also isn’t one I’m a professional within, it's just a topic of interest relating to psychology.
From time to time, like this article, I will write about random topics which I or those around me have thought about, which is why this one was introduced.
If psychology is an element you’re interested in, and it might be from the data on my top articles, continue reading to understand the elements of a psychopath in humans:
Genetic Factors
Although there aren’t any direct genetic factors that correlate directly towards psychopathy, there can be elements of genes that can contribute to building someone to become a psychopath.
Most psychological outcomes are caused by the combined effects of many hundreds or thousands of genes in conjunction with each other to be able to muster psychological effects.
For about half of the variation of genes, these are the ones that include correlation with psychopathy. This means that some children are born at higher risk for developing psychopathy.
