Your inner sadist. About Hitler's brain, aggression and psychopathy

Sunday videos, on which Alexander Lukashenko wanders with a gun in his hands in his palace and calls the security forces “handsome” (stormy applause), is easiest to explain the undoubted insanity of the Belarusian dictator. However, do not underestimate the power of evil: ridiculous gestures do not make the sadist driven into the corner of the sadist less dangerous - rather, on the contrary. We generally tend to explain the atrocity of madness; It seems to us that evil people are some special-live by other rules and standards. But is the brain of a psychopath from the brain of an ordinary person so different? About this - in our archival material, first published in May 2020.

Group school picture, Leonding (Austria), 1899. In the center in the back row - ten -year -old Adolf Hitler.

Photo: Bayerische Stadtbibliothek (Munchen), Wikimedia Commons

Julia Show is a famous German-Canadian psychologist, specialist in the field of judicial psychology, teacher of university college in London, author of several popular science books. Just in the publishing house of Alpin Non-Fix , a new work of the show "Psychology of Evil: why a person chooses the dark side." We quote publishing annotation:

Why is there evil? This is one of the most important issues that bother humanity. It seems that evil people are some special-live by other rules and standards. But is the brain of a psychopath from the brain of an ordinary person so different? How many people are visited by fantasies about murder? Can artificial intelligence be considered evil? Do your sexual inclinations make you a bad person? Who and why becomes a terrorist?

In the chapter "Your inner sadist. Neuronauka Evil ” The author of the book talks about how the brain of the greatest criminal worked in history. For the convenience of magazine publication, small abbreviations are made in the text.

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