I thought psychopaths tended to be businessmen? Don't you have to have some reasoning skills to run a business while stepping on others businesses?
For the stated studies most of psychopats were found in business and politics.
But many anyway end up being mediocre people because they can't adapt to society. So where a psychopath fits, relies heavily on the possibilities of life. They can range from doormen and other mediocre work, even people in the margins of society, such as prisoners, etc. Being psychopath is not pre-requisite for success.
Obviously most people in business are not psychopaths, and probably persons without sociopathy are smarter, since they has empathy and a normal person can read the feelings of others and understand group dynamics better.
I do not think it is even close. There is no chance of reasoning with a psychopath. Sociopaths are still tethered to their emotions, and since they usually become sociopaths as a result of their experiences, they have a big soft spot.
lol sociopath is a term used which is currently synonymous with psychopath
One reason for the change is that the term was very confused with psychosis.They also found that it was inappropriate because it means psychic disease. So a person who is bipolar also have psychological disorders, but it has nothing to do with psychopathy. Hence was born the term sociopath.
Psychopath does not necessarily describe someone who is the margin of society.
It is the brain of these people behave differently.
Long ago there was a discussion whether people become psychopaths, or if they are born. The conclusion is that they are born that way, because any past situation does not justify the person being psychopath.
So for example, a person who kills or commits other crimes is not necessarily sociopath. Someone can kill because this having a psychotic outbreak due to schizophrenia. Someone can kill because they live with criminals and wanting money, I dont know, to support the family. Or someone can kill because the other broke his nail (psychopath).
Others will say, WTF, the guy killed because of a fingernail. But for the psychopath this is justifiable, they has no sense of what is important or right or wrong.
In the example of breaking the nail I gave an idiotic illustration, but that's the logic of a sociopath that kills.