Julia Shaw

I mean, a lot of jealousy is born out of uncertainty.

Jealousy isn't, I know for sure that you have done something that is threatening our relationship.

A lot of jealousy is what's in my head because I am assuming that you might be thinking or doing X. And that is also basically an exercise in lie detection.

And there as well, we are very bad at it.

There's definitely some research to support the idea that people with psychopathy are better at lying.

There's also some research specifically on faking good in, for example, parole decisions.

So when it comes up to someone who is, there's a legal decision to be made as to whether this person is going to be released from prison or released from just detention in general.

And then the person will act in a particular way, sort of mimic a good prisoner, mimic someone who's safe to be released into society.

And

then the committee goes, oh, well, you know, this person's doing great.

And so they're ready to be released.

And then they make the wrong decision because that person has been faking it.

So I think with psychopathy, it's a bit complicated.

It's

there has been some sort of historically as well, some concern that certain treatment for psychopathy, especially empathy-focused treatment, makes people with psychopathy more likely to fake empathy and to weaponize it.

But then there's other research which finds that if you use other kinds of

It's like Jennifer Scheme in California who does research on people with psychopathy who have committed severe crimes.

And she specifically creates these treatment programs that aren't just around empathy, but they're more around almost learning the rules of society and convincing people that actually being pro-social is a better way to get what you want in life.

And so there's a real need for tailored treatments to deal with, especially certain kinds of personality traits, dark personality traits, to try and convince people basically, actually, being pro-social is the better path, rather than just going hard on, you know, empathy and things that they don't maybe also see as faults with themselves.

I don't think so.