Elisa Donovan

It's characterized by an extreme lack of remorse, lack of empathy.

Everything is about control and power.

So all of their behaviors at the very end of the day are all about obtaining control and power over other people.

They're extremely manipulative.

They are extremely controlling.

And quite frankly, they are aware, and this is something I'm sure will get to, but they are aware of what they're doing.

Short answer is no, they don't care as long as their needs are met.

So why do so many criminals seem to have these traits?

Yeah.

So when we look at criminology, what we find is that in that cluster of personality disorders, particularly narcissistic personality disorder, we have something called antisocial personality disorder, which kind of

If you think of narcissism on a continuum, right?

And at the extreme end, we have that intense, malignant, narcissistic personality style.

Right up next to that, we tend to have antisocial personality disorder, which is what we think of criminology, like people that kill and do these horrific things.

And they really bump up next to each other.

They are different in certain respects, but they do overlap, which is why you'll see at the extreme end of narcissism, it tends to go into that realm.

Right.

Right.

So that's it's more than the average person.

You know, it makes somebody more like someone with narcissism.

It makes them more likely to cross moral or legal lines.