The Psychopath Inside (24 page)

RNA,
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Rockefeller, Nelson,
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Rodrigues, Sarina,
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Roth, Eli,
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“Rubik's Cube” brain model,
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Sagman, Doron,
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Saks, Elyn,
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Saxe, Rebecca,
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schizophrenia,
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Scoma, Giovannina Giuseppina Salvetrica Sylvia,
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Fallon, Jennie

Scoma, Tomas,
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seasonal affective disorder (SAD),
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selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs),
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self-assessment,
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self-confidence,
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self-control,
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self-testing, for psychopathy,
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Senior Research Fulbright Fellowship,
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serial killers,
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serotonin,
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sex,
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author's eschewing of,
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puberty and,
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stimulation from,
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sex chromosomes,
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sexual hyperfunction,
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sexuality,
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Silence of the Lambs, The,
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single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs),
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sins,
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Smith, Winnie,
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sociability,
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see also
partying

social phobia,
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sociopathy, psychopathy vs.,
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somatic cells,
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“Song of Lewes, The,”
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spectrum disorders:

bipolar disorder as,
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psychopathy as,
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Spellman, Cardinal,
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“splitters,”
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“Squalid Truth Behind the Legacy of Mother Teresa, The” (MacIntyre),
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stem cells,
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stress:

in epigenetic alterations,
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response to,
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in young adults,
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stroke,
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subgenual cingulate gyrus,
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suicide,
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superficiality,
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superior parietal cortex,
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Susannah (author's friend),
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sympathy,
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Tarantino, Quentin,
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taxation,
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Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) conference,
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temporal lobes,
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temporo-parietal junction,
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Teresa, Mother,
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testes,
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testosterone,
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thalamic structures,
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theory of mind,
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Three-Legged Stool theory,
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thymine (T),
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Tingley, Dustin,
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Tohen, Mauricio,
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Torp, Reidun,
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transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS),
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transcriptomics,
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Turner, Ralph,
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Ungerleider, Leslie,
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valine-methionine polymorphism,
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Valium,
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vasopressin,
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vehicular murder,
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ventral stream,
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ventromedial prefrontal cortex,
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Vietnam War,
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violence:

in films,
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global,
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historical decline in,
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predictors of,
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transgenerational,
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warrior gene and,
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visual sensory system,
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Wallinius, Märta,
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Wall Street Journal,
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war, warfare:

effect on brain of,
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psychopathy in,
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warrior culture,
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warrior gene,
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in author,
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benefits of,
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testing for,
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weight, author's swings of,
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see also
obesity

welfare,
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“What's on Jim Fallon's Mind” (Naik),
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Wheeler, John,
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women:

appeal of bad boys to,
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author's relationships with,
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as less aggressive than men,
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as psychopaths,
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World Congress for Social Psychiatry,
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World Science Festival,
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YouTube,
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Zak, Paul,
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Zoloft,
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