The trait of children who could be adult psychopaths

A new study suggests that there is a way to know if children could grow up and become adult psychopaths through identification a particular personality trait.

With This feature could predict whether children will be adult psychopaths

According to research led by University College London, if your child tends not to laugh when others do, then runs a higher risk of becoming in psychopath when I grow up.

Although lead study author Essi Viding, a professor at UCL, clarified that it is not appropriate to label psychopaths , he says who know that there are certain children who are at greater risk of developing psychopathy.

One of the signs to identify psychopathy, which can only develop specifically in adulthood, is the lack of empathy , that is the ability to understand and share the emotions of others at a Intuitive level.

To discover if this lack of empathy can be detected in young children from 11 to 16 years old, the team of psychologists recruited 62 of them with disruptive social behaviors and insensitive personality traits.In addition, 30 children without these characteristics were used as a control group.They were matched according to their cognitive ability, socioeconomic background and ethnicity.

While connecting to a MRI scanner, the children Children were placed with genuine laughter audio clips, along with false laughs and crying noises, then they were asked to rate, on a scale, how much they wanted to join with each sound .

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