Symptoms and causes Some research says that one of the main causes …show more content…
(Nauert, 2015) This research was very different than other research that was completed in the past because instead of focusing on what people who are considered psychopaths have less of than normal people, it focused on that they have more of, a hyper-active dopamine reward system. As to exactly what causes someone to become a psychopath, its hard to tell however there are some interesting statistic on the topic. Some studies concluded that 60 percent of psychopaths had lost a parent and therefore may not have received the nurturing that they may have needed to fully develop empathy and feelings for others. This can be compared directly to a sociopath because they are very similar disorders. A cause of a sociopath is parents who show to the public a loving family but are very harsh on the child behind closed doors. One could speculate that this could also be a cause for a psychopath because being neglected as a child is widely seen as one of the possible causes of someone …show more content…
He was the kind of kid in school that rarely completed his homework and that became a problem when he got his first job at a