#psychopathy — Public Fediverse posts
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Psychopath personality types aren’t really functional. They’re the reason “functional” has become a dirty word.
#Psychology #PersonalityTypes #DarkTriad #DarkTetrad #Psychopathy
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"Trump spent Sunday posting pictures of himself nuking the planet from a space station, guarded by giant robots, over a caption announcing that the United States now owns the moon. He did this for thirteen hours.
Between 9:10 in the morning and 10:35 at night, Donald Trump fired off more than sixty posts. Memes, rants, endorsements, personal attacks, and a steady stream of AI-generated pictures of himself. He announced he wants to rename New Mexico.
Stating that it is "one of the great vote cheating states of all time," a casual proposition by the President of the U.S.A. to rename a state that has existed since 1912 and call it "New America" was accompanied by a video of him dancing to Y.M.C.A.
He posted himself as Hulk Hogan. He posted himself in a Space Force uniform that critics pointed out looks like the outfit the villains wear in Star Wars. He posted himself palling around with George Washington, drawn by the same software that cannot reliably render a hand.
He bragged about making billions trading stocks, while under scrutiny for exactly that, and added that the billions were "for the U.S.A., not myself," which is what a man says when both halves of the sentence are for him.
Somewhere in the thirteen hours he found the time and audacity to mock congresswoman Debbie Dingell for weeping over her dead husband, calling her a “third rate loser.”
None of this is a distraction, in fact it seems that this is his job now.
The country is paying a full presidential salary, and a great deal more than that, for a man to be unhinged on his own social media app.
The codes are still in the room with him."
- From The Other 98% (Facebook)
#American #President #Invokethe25thamendment #Ammendment25 #worldnews #nationalnews #news #DC #WashingtonDC #psychopathy #dementia #unhinged #humanity #madman #lunatic #screenshot #socialmedia #psychotic
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Sir #TrumpVirus doing what he loves - manipulating/stealing/grifting money.
Of course he can't operate a computer other than his phone. "Oh Natalie! Give me a hand. Scott! Do me a favor..."#corruption #manipulation #grifting #emoluments #plundering #psychopathy #narcissism #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup #nepotism #BrainSpurs
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If possessing #empathy really was a problem for human flourishing, evolution would be churning out people with fully diagnosable #psychopathy at a far higher rate than 1.2%.
What has happened though, is we’ve built a society rewarding psychopathy with money and power at every step, that’s left the empathically neurotypicals without money or power.
Then finally, the psychos got together and decided that everybody else is flawed.
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DATE: September 3, 2026 at 07:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: The link between dark personality traits and online toxicity is more nuanced than expected
A new study found that individuals with more pronounced dark personality traits tend to report more engagement in uncivil online interactions. However, analysis of their actual Reddit comments did not confirm this association—dark personality traits were not associated with any of the toxicity or linguistic features of their comments. The paper was published in Computers in Human Behavior.
Online social platforms have transformed how people communicate, exchange information, and build communities. However, they have also created new opportunities for harmful behavior. Toxic and hateful speech is particularly concerning because hostile online interactions can result in psychological harm, and, in some cases, offline violence. Research increasingly suggests that such behavior is shaped not only by the design of online platforms or specific situations, but also by individual personality differences.
Particular attention has been given to the so-called Dark Tetrad: Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and everyday sadism. These traits have been associated with behaviors such as trolling, cyberbullying, manipulation, hostility, and the production or endorsement of toxic content. For example, people with stronger sadistic tendencies may enjoy provoking or upsetting others, while psychopathic traits have been linked to more impulsive and hostile online interactions.
Because personality also influences how people communicate, researchers have become interested in whether psychological characteristics might be reflected in the language people use online. This has contributed to the development of computational approaches that attempt to infer personality traits from digital behavior and linguistic patterns.
Study author Aldo Cerulli and his colleagues explored the relationship between dark personality traits and the textual content people post online. More specifically, they wanted to see whether dark personality traits can be reliably inferred from textual materials on social media.
Study participants were 114 U.S. individuals recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing platform. After enrolling in the study, participants provided information the researchers needed to link them to their Reddit accounts. For this, the study authors developed a dedicated web application that interfaces directly with Reddit’s Application Programming Interface (API), allowing for the secure, automated collection of participant data.
The study authors used this link to collect participants’ Reddit comments. In total, this included 152,741 sentences that comprised 56,892 comments. The mean number of comments per participant was 499. By analyzing these texts, the study authors derived estimates of participants’ online toxicity, psycholinguistic characteristics, emotional expressions, contextual emotions, moral foundations, use of irony, and text-derived dark personality traits. Aside from this, study participants completed questionnaire assessments of dark personality traits (the Dark Side of Humanity Scale), cyberbullying and trolling (the Cyberbully/Troll Deviancy Scale), and six items regarding their social media use habits.
Results showed no significant associations between the self-reported dark personality traits and estimates of those traits derived computationally from participants’ text responses. Individuals whose self-reported trolling behaviors and dark personality traits, particularly Successful Psychopathy—a calculated, manipulative style combining psychopathy and Machiavellianism—were more pronounced tended to report using uncivil comments and content on social media more often. However, dark personality traits did not predict actual toxicity expressed in participants’ Reddit comments.
Unlike personality traits, participants’ own descriptions of their online behavior were associated with their actual Reddit behavior. More specifically, participants who said they often produced toxic content actually tended to have more toxic Reddit comments. Furthermore, people who reported being targets of toxicity also tended to produce more toxic comments, suggesting a form of perpetrator-victim reciprocity where exposure to hostility increases the likelihood of responding in kind.
“Our results underscore the importance of grounding computational approaches in validated psychological measures and point to the need for richer, context-aware representations to better understand the relationship between personality and online behavior,” the study authors concluded.
The study contributes to scientific knowledge about the associations between personality traits and online behavior. However, it should be noted that the study was conducted on a relatively small sample of participants and focused on Reddit comments only. Results of studies on larger samples, exploring wider sources of online behavior, and using different approaches to text analysis might differ. Additionally, the validity of estimates of psychological characteristics derived from features of text comments is unclear.
The paper, “Dark personality traits and online toxicity: Linking self-reports to Reddit activity,” was authored by Aldo Cerulli, Benedetta Tessa, Giuseppe La Selva, Oronzo Mazzeo, Lorenzo Cima, Lucia Monacis, and Stefano Cresci.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #DarkTetrad #OnlineToxicity #PsychologyOfSocialMedia #RedditResearch #TrollingAndCyberbullying #Machiavellianism #Psychopathy #DarkPersonality #ComputersInHumanBehavior #TextAnalysis #LinguisticPatterns
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Discussion of how evolution, under #capitalism, systematically selects for #psychopathy. Which is obvious, when you think about it, but it's interesting to hear it argued explicitly.
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis: The Rules of the Game Keep Us Trapped with Greg Elliott | TGS 231
Episode webpage: https://thegreatsimplification.libsyn.com/the-psychopathic-selection-hypothesis-the-rules-of-the-game-keep-us-trapped-with-greg-elliott-tgs-231
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thegreatsimplification/TGS231_GregElliott.mp3?dest-id=3235040
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Well if this isn't where we all are at now, in each one of our nations?
Never compromise with Fascists/Psychopaths#AndrewLobaczewski #Psychopathy #pathocracy #Politics #Psychology
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The most chilling thing is, we all have personal experience of this personality type, the more so the higher up social hierarchies we go.
I mean, we're fucking sick of some of the prime examples of this type, aren't we? Just counting down the days until they are dead...
#Psychopathy #DrKarenMitchell #Psychology #Business #ProfessionalClass
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Some of us know about these. The questions for me are: why don't others; and why are there so many more of them in power now?
"From this research, which took her five years, Mitchell built a template of 20 attributes, divided into four clusters, and 25 tactics that would identify a high-functioning persistent predatory personality type."
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/117163146629424256
Putin was always going to want to nuke someone. He's a psychopath with no bottom. Trump has asked about using them, too. (He's also a narcissistic psychopath.)
"Sources cited by Bloomberg also say a growing number of Russian officials believe Putin could use a tactical nuclear weapon. Key Russian partners, including China and India, have reportedly warned Putin against even considering such a step."
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One of the hallmarks of the #ClassicNarcissist is to convince their intended Supply to do something incredibly harmful to themselves, often with longlasting or permanent consequences, by making it seem beneficial and clever, emphasizing the short-term benefits
If you think that sounds convoluted, absurd, and totally psychotic, you’d be right
#Psychology #PersonalityType #DarkTriad #DarkTetrad #Psychopathy #Narcissism
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Spoiler-free 10-second movie review: "Narcissist's Playbook" (2026) - documentary
If you're interested in psychology, especially abnormal psychology, this is fascinating. It's about narcissism in general, but also about the psychopathic end of that spectrum in particular. It includes interviews with actual narcissists across that spectrum.
It kind of takes a right-turn partway through, and my partner explained what was behind that - they already followed this subject and these participants in particular.
Like I said, fascinating.
#10SecondMovieReview #NoSpoilers #MovieReview #FilmReview #movie #film #review #documentary #narcissism #narcissist #psychology #psychopathy #FilmsForAdults #MoviesForAdults
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New book review on my website!
The Confidence Game, Maria Konnikova
★★★★☆An interesting read on how con artists operate, and the psychological traits they manipulate in the rest of us. Roughly structured around different phases of a con, and illustrated with real cases, some historical and others based on direct interviews.
https://kvibber.com/reviews/books/confidence-game/
#psychology #psychopathy #crime #scam #fraud #books #review -
Embracing the Mediterranean life
Without the fires and the trough of course!
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I saw another article today of some random famous person accusing another random famous person of being a #Psychopath and I feel compelled to point out two very important facts about #Psychopathy:
1. Psychopathy is only one thing, extreme (ie., as good as complete) empathy deficiency. The rest of what happens in the mind of a Psychopath is just what human beings are without empathy.
2. Intentionally using emotionally-charged words for their effect rather than their meaning, often in order to manipulate people, such as occurs as an aspect of attention-seeking behaviour patterns, is consistent with psychopathic personality traits as a whole, although typically favoured by the #NarcissistNow, more than ever before, ignore what people say and look hard at what they do
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Noite Animal, released in 1995
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Shooter; Puzzle; Quiz/Trivia; Adventure
Comedy, Erotic
adult, psychopathy, cockroach
From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/noite-animal
#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #adult #psychopathy #cockroach #win #comedy #erotic -
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Me too! They are all, literally, evil psychopaths!
#Israel #Zionism #Netanyahu #Trump #Psychopathy #Evil #SettlerColonists #US
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Great article! Well worth a read & please boost!
“Hannah Arendt Warned Us — How Israel Normalises Sadism in the Service of Its Settler Colonial Machine”
by Avigail Abarbanel in Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays on Substack
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@[email protected]“When I was at school and later during my university studies my Zionist teachers taught that the Nazis were not content merely to kill Jews. Humiliation and the deliberate destruction of human dignity were a big part of the project itself — shaving heads, tattooing numbers, rape, medical experiments, degradation in every conceivable form, and all manner of deprivation before death. The cruelty was not incidental to the killing. It was the point. [..].
Israel is now doing precisely this to the Palestinians and the audacity of it is staggering”
https://open.substack.com/pub/avigail/p/hannah-arendt-warned-us-how-israel
#Press #SocialMedia #Gaza #Lebanon #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Israel #Psychopathy #Sadism #Rape #Dehumanisation #Evil
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Here is the French translation.
Go on as you want with it
I'm not looking for fame => my name on the translation is optionnal.----- FRENCH / FRANÇAIS
Aucun spoiler ne se cache ici sur ce coup-ci mes amours. J'ai besoin que LE MONDE ENTIER puisse voir ça. Balancez ce connard jusqu'à la LUNE. Faites une copie d'écran, incluez mon nom et diffusez-ça PARTOUT.Désolé pour la triste nouvelle mais je pense que c'est important et je veux que chacun d'entre vous, dans vos pays respectifs, réfléchisse s'il serait prêt à contacter son représentant pour lui dire de faire pression sur le Canada pour qu'il ouvre les portes aux réfugiés trans.
Voilà. Aucun changement n’est nécessaire dans vos pays – juste des gens prêts à se lever et à dire "Plus jamais". On est rendus au pire. Il s’agit de la promulgation des lois raciales de Nuremberg. Ça va supprimer fondamentalement toute capacité à toute entité financée par le gouvernement fédéral – N'IMPOERTE LAQUELLE – de permettre aux personnes trans d’exister.
Là, mes amis, je suis désolé mais il s'agit de laisser ou non génocider toute la population trans des États-Unis, gentille et calme, sinon nous sombrons tous dans l’obscurité pour ne plus jamais être revus. Ils veulent tellement nous désespérer, jusqu'à ce que nous nous chargions de la solution finale à leur place.
S'il vous plaît. Si vous vous souciez un minimum de l'humanité et du droit des gens à vivre comme ils sont ... dignité humaine élémentaire. Soins de santé. Ne pas subir de détransition forcée dans les prisons où on nous enferme après être traités de terroristes par le régime nazi de Trump.
Contactez simplement votre représentant, quel qu'il soit, où qu'il se trouve, et lancez cette conversation pour moi. D'accord ? Demandez-leur simplement de commencer à poser des questions. Du Canada. Nous avons une chance de sauver littéralement des centaines de milliers de personnes trans américaines innocentes.
Je peux gérer le travail dans ce but, au Canada. J'ai des gens que je peux mobiliser, avec qui je peux travailler mais une pression internationale serait d’une aide ÉNORME.
Si vous souhaitez traduire mon message dans votre langue, faites-le. Si vous m'envoyez le texte en DM, je le republierai moi-même et j'utiliserai les flèches pour diffuser cet appel.
J'ai - nous - avons besoin de votre aide.
-----(the Moon is too close, Mars would be a bit better, and Pluto preffered.)
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Psychopathy: some experts now say it doesn’t exist – here’s why we may be looking at it all wrong
#Psychology #Psychopathy #MentalHealth #Personality #PersonalityDisorders #Science #Research #Behaviour #Neuroscience #Criminology #Empathy #HumanBehavior
https://the-14.com/psychopathy-some-experts-now-say-it-doesnt-exist-heres-why-we-may-be-looking-at-it-all-wrong/ -
#ChildAbuse, #misogyny, #xenophobia are all symptoms of profoundly sick #society
#sociopathy #psychopathy
‘Massive’ child #abuse scandal in France
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/massive-child-abuse-scandal-in-france-as-school-staff-investigated-for-violence-and-sexual-assault -
What I really haven’t grasped about #Musk before, is that for him the valuable parts of human behaviour to preserve in a technological AI future are the ruthlessness, malevolence and greed.
He doesn’t fear AI, but that a machine might learn to do good from evidence, and god forbid appeal to humans to do so!
Hence his anti-woke #AI Grok that turns into MechaHitler on occasion. He’s absolutely hell-bent on inducing his particular kind of #psychopathy into a machine! 🤯
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@DerLogiker @georgetakei Trump is worse, actually.
Letter to congressional leaders from psychiatrists: 'President Trump exhibits what forensic mental health experts have, across dozens of independent assessments, identified as the “Dark Triad” of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.'
They describe the evidence that he's dangerously unstable, that his "judgment is, by every visible measure, severely compromised" and that "he is a constitutional emergency."
"Top psychiatrists issue urgent letter to Congress about Trump's mental instability" https://www.alternet.org/psychiatrists-trump/
#Trump #DarkTriad #narcissism #narcissist #Machiavellian #Machiavellianism #psychopath #psychopathy #unstable #25thAmendment #2547th #25th
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#men #allmen #patriarchy #abuse #weakmen #psychiatricdisorders #neurodiverse #autism #psychopathy #narcissism
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The moment patriarchy ceases to exist, each and every male would be forced to earn the attention and consent of a woman ON TERMS OF THAT WOMAN, he would not be able to openly force or covertly manipulate his will upon her and be sure to get away with it. -
#men #allmen #patriarchy #abuse #weakmen #psychiatricdisorders #neurodiverse #autism #psychopathy #narcissism
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...to get one each to serve as property, and called and perpetuated that violent abuse a patriarchy. Being able to get a woman they didn't earn, to use her to produce offspring, they handed down their defective genes multiplied by countless generations. The few healthy men did, and to this day do nothing against this behavior, because they hugely profit from it. -->3/3 -
#men #allmen #patriarchy #abuse #weakmen #psychiatricdisorders #neurodiverse #autism #psychopathy #narcissism
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Up to today I would estimate ~2-4% of the male population is healthy emotionally, physically as well as sexually, who have no aberrations and psychiatric disorders.
Where it went wrong? The last time we know about must be around 10-20 thousand years ago, when a whole horde of weak men forced themselves upon women by their sheer numbers, to be able --> 2/3
