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The professor described sociopaths as people prone to apathy who behave badly out of a desperation to feel something.
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Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Bon Iver in You Season 3, Ep. 10 Just as sociopath Joe (Penn Badgley) drags the lifeless body of Love (Victoria Pedretti), his equally deranged wife, across the floor of their Nancy Meyers-esque kitchen, the evocative Folklore track starts to play.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 May 2024
There’s some initial laughter about how the military selects for sociopaths.
—Susan Burton, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
The elephant in the room, for viewers if not the characters, is that at 47, Andrew Scott is too old for the fledgling sociopath that Tom Ripley is supposed to be in the first of Highsmith’s novels in the series.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024
As a sociopath, these feelings come less easily to me than inherent emotions like joy and sadness.
—Patric Gagne, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
Patric Gagne’s Sociopath tells how the writer (who herself has been diagnosed as a sociopath) learned to stop treating her inability to identify her feelings by committing petty crimes, and to start trying talk therapy and building strong relationships instead.
—Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
This contributed to a unique type of anxiety, a stress associated with the inner conflict some believe compels sociopaths to behave in a way that is damaging.
—Patric Gagne, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
That is what the sociopath experience is almost all the time.
—David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Bon Iver in You Season 3, Ep. 10 Just as sociopath Joe (Penn Badgley) drags the lifeless body of Love (Victoria Pedretti), his equally deranged wife, across the floor of their Nancy Meyers-esque kitchen, the evocative Folklore track starts to play.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 May 2024
There’s some initial laughter about how the military selects for sociopaths.
—Susan Burton, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
The elephant in the room, for viewers if not the characters, is that at 47, Andrew Scott is too old for the fledgling sociopath that Tom Ripley is supposed to be in the first of Highsmith’s novels in the series.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024
As a sociopath, these feelings come less easily to me than inherent emotions like joy and sadness.
—Patric Gagne, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
Patric Gagne’s Sociopath tells how the writer (who herself has been diagnosed as a sociopath) learned to stop treating her inability to identify her feelings by committing petty crimes, and to start trying talk therapy and building strong relationships instead.
—Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
This contributed to a unique type of anxiety, a stress associated with the inner conflict some believe compels sociopaths to behave in a way that is damaging.
—Patric Gagne, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
That is what the sociopath experience is almost all the time.
—David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
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sociopath
noun
so·cio·path
ˈsō-sē-ə-ˌpath 
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
: a sociopathic individual
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