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=== Both heroes and villains are psychopaths === | === Both heroes and villains are psychopaths === | ||
In two studies of undergraduate students, involving a total of 243 volunteers, and one study of 457 adults recruited online/ Researchers asked people to fill out questionnaires regarding their heroic acts, even ones as minor as breaking up a public fight or helping a stranger push a car out of a ditch. The volunteers also took a personality questionnaire to determine their level of psychopathic personality traits — none of the volunteers were actually psychopaths, but because personality is a spectrum, some people were closer than others.<ref>https://www.livescience.com/37483-heroism-psychopaths.html</ref> | In two studies of undergraduate students, involving a total of 243 volunteers, and one study of 457 adults recruited online/ Researchers asked people to fill out questionnaires regarding their heroic acts, even ones as minor as breaking up a public fight or helping a stranger push a car out of a ditch. The volunteers also took a personality questionnaire to determine their level of psychopathic personality traits — none of the volunteers were actually psychopaths, but because personality is a spectrum, some people were closer than others.<ref>https://www.livescience.com/37483-heroism-psychopaths.html</ref> | ||
The personality of a hero | The personality of a hero | ||