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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 131: The World’s Friendliest Psychopath
Description: Dr. James Fallon
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We are taught that psychopaths are dangerous individuals who should be avoided at all costs. This is probably good advice. Dr. James Fallon is a neuroscientist at UC Irvine who has been studying the brains of killers for over a decade…including his own. Dr. Fallon is a psychopath by definition, although he is not dangerous by any means (or so he says). It turns out psychopathy is pretty common, and just because people have the brain of a psychopath, that does not condemn them to a life of vi...