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Being a psychopath is categorized under the personality disorder, psychopathy. Psychopathy is when antisocial behavior brings manipulated and deviated thoughts, and also lying. The most common characteristics of a classified psychopath would be someone who lacks emotion, empathy, and guilt. Every time a psychopath may kill someone, afterwards they do not feel bad about anything they had done. If someone were to clap their hands behind the back of a psychopath with a goal of startling them, the psychopath would not jump or have no reaction at all. Missing any of these humanly characteristics can cause a person to commit frequent crimes, like homicides and fraud, and become a deviant of society. Psychopaths may come across as “normal,” and “charming,” even to someone who is used to detecting psychopathy within a person. Although most psychopaths are violent and do crimes themselves, few psychopaths are nonviolent. Nonviolent psychopaths tend to use more of the manipulative mind games with people to make them do the crimes for …show more content…
An increase of studies in the past few years by experts has contributed a given connection between psychopathy and serial killers. The 2005 symposium on the murders of serial killers conducted by the FBI concluded that psychopathy is manifested in a specific cluster of interpersonal, affective, lifestyle and antisocial traits and behaviors that are frequently found among serial killers (Bonn, 2014). Psychopathic serial killers are not out of touch with reality, which means they usually do not come across ill in any sense. Psychopathic serial killers also do not value others life in any way, due to the lack of empathy, pity, and remorse. These traits that psychopathic serial killers display, typically manifest within one during their early childhood