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Inside the mind of a psychopath + solving the nature vs. nurture debate when it comes to mental illness (Interview with Professor James Fallon)

The Dr. Leaf Show

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The Perceptual Perception of the Serial Killer

When something out of the norm happens, it attracts our attention. That's what draws us to the serial killer and be in line with that that anything different catches our attention. We're naturally drawn to it, but you know, we're wired to be drawn to it because these are things that can harm us,. And so if you don't have that, you're completely naive. So there's a multiplicity of reasons why we get onto it. Some of us wired very early. Now, this is why Plato was correct Socrates Aristotle, everybody, well, you know, for the last 2,500 years, most we've been hearing, it is not true.

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