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Originally Posted by DarkFish
What are the statistics?
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Estimates are about 1% of the general population, possibly higher. We have a reasonable idea of population % for the non-socialized/criminal type, but only very rough estimates for the socialized type.
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How can they find things amusing or entertaining if they can't experience emotions?
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Being entertained isn't exactly an emotion (neither is boredom) but more of a state of mind or level of arousal.
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Does that mean there are no sadistic psychopaths? That's a relief
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That would be debatable. Also sadism is technically a sexual dysfunction which means the person derives sexual pleasure from sadistic behavior. What I am more driving at is that psychopaths do not experience pleasure in the same way normal people do. So while we may call them sadistic due to behavior, I don't feel they are truely sadistic given how they seem to experience pleasure (at best they experience a very shallow version of pleasure, most don't seem to show it at all, at least in a way normal people would understand).
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Also, how do you know all these things? Are you a psychiatrist or something?
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Currently 4th year honors psychology student (career number 3) with plans to go on to clinical social work, though I have a lot of other experience in the field. I am pretty familiar with this particular condition, have met a few diagnosed psychopaths, and done a fair amount of reading on the subject in addition to courses that have dealt with the topic in varying levels of detail. I am also a cognitive science researcher (scholarship).