# psychopathy
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0:33What is psychopathy (and what it isn't)Al Elliott: Nice. Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses Abigail Marsh: I think a lot of people conflate psychopathy with serial killers. You know, people think of characters like HanEP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 0:33–9:149:16Person-first language: why "a person with psychopathy" mattersAbigail Marsh: A person with psychopathy Leanne Elliott: A person with psychopathy Abigail Marsh: Just like we would say somebody who has depression is a person with depression. We don't call them a depressive. You know,EP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 9:16–11:1211:12Why the scariest psychopaths are the ones you don't noticeAl Elliott: Okay, so we know what it is and what the correct term is, but that doesn't mean that we feel any more comfortable around someone who we're told is psychopathic? Leanne Elliott: I'm a psychologist, and even I EP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 11:12–14:3514:35Lived experiences and red flags to watch forLeanne Elliott: That's Is there a typical lived experience that might be— is that a clue if we have somebody in our lives who, you know, has that, those types of behaviors? Is there something that typically we might expeEP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 14:35–18:4618:54Can you actually spot a psychopath at work?Al Elliott: If 1 in 200 people have psychopathic tendencies, then there's a good chance you work with someone who fits this profile. So after this short break, Leanne's gonna ask Dr. Abby how we can tell if someone at woEP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 18:54–28:1528:15Industries that attract psychopathic traitsLeanne Elliott: Right Abigail Marsh: Yes, they're callous. Yes, they don't have much empathy or caring about other people's welfare fundamentally. They don't feel love as I would think about it, but they do have integritEP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 28:15–31:2231:22Extreme altruism: the opposite of psychopathyAbigail Marsh: It's called extreme One of the important things to know about psychopathy is that it's not like a grouping, right? It's not like you can divide the world into people who are psychopathic and people who areEP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 31:22–42:0442:04The rise of self-diagnosis and pop psychologyAbigail Marsh: I have to say, there has been a trend lately that I've observed, um, anecdotally. I don't have data on this, but it really seems clearer, of people increasingly self-diagnosing as psychopathic, who I reallEP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 42:04–54:2954:29A compelling lived experience storyAbigail Marsh: There are a lot of really compelling stories that I've come across over the years of people who are psychopathic. I mean, it's one that comes to mind quickly because it's a story that was very well publiciEP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 54:29–57:4457:44Al and Leanne take the psychopathy screening testAl Elliott: There you have it. You now know a lot more about psychopathy than you did an hour ago. But are you a psychopath? Are we psychopaths? At the top of the show, we explained that we took Dr. Abbie's online diagnoEP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 57:44–65:16
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