This was a pretty entertaining explanation of normal people's natural tendency to not change their mind (hardly ever), even (and particularly) in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Your Friendly Successful Psychopath
This TED talk is from a reader. It discusses some research about psychopaths and loss aversion (they don't experience it) and suggests some ways that non-psychopaths could learn to be a little more risk seeking themselves.
It also mentions (and this is the first I've heard about this, but does not seem wrong) about how psychopaths have naturally high mindfulness because they are laser focused on whatever task is in front of them.
A third point was regarding how to influence people by doing favors for a person. I'll let you watch the explanation for that one.
It also mentions (and this is the first I've heard about this, but does not seem wrong) about how psychopaths have naturally high mindfulness because they are laser focused on whatever task is in front of them.
A third point was regarding how to influence people by doing favors for a person. I'll let you watch the explanation for that one.
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Dirty John: Seduction and Deception
From a reader:
The LA Times has a front page story along with several other full pages in the first section devoted to a piece they are calling Dirty John, along with a 6 episode podcast. It is a true story that happened over the last few years about a sociopath named John who married a lonely rich woman and then became abusive and went after her daughter. [SPOILER EDITED] It happened last summer and it’s amazing to see how this is playing out as a feature story. Anyway, it should be a pretty good portrait of how an SP gets released from jail, immediately finds, seduces and marries his next victim and deals with her suspicious children. The wife secretly recorded over 100 of their conversations after she finally came to (she ignored thousands of red flags and believed every one of his lies), so the podcast includes many audio clips of him trying to seduce/con her. And she gave the newspaper all their pics. They are publishing a piece of the story every day this week. I’m not sure when the first episode of the podcast starts, maybe tomorrow.
A red flag from the article:
He had thick dark hair and a warm, friendly smile that invited trust. His eyes were hazel-green, with the quality of canceling out the whole of the world that wasn’t her, their current focus.
The LA Times has a front page story along with several other full pages in the first section devoted to a piece they are calling Dirty John, along with a 6 episode podcast. It is a true story that happened over the last few years about a sociopath named John who married a lonely rich woman and then became abusive and went after her daughter. [SPOILER EDITED] It happened last summer and it’s amazing to see how this is playing out as a feature story. Anyway, it should be a pretty good portrait of how an SP gets released from jail, immediately finds, seduces and marries his next victim and deals with her suspicious children. The wife secretly recorded over 100 of their conversations after she finally came to (she ignored thousands of red flags and believed every one of his lies), so the podcast includes many audio clips of him trying to seduce/con her. And she gave the newspaper all their pics. They are publishing a piece of the story every day this week. I’m not sure when the first episode of the podcast starts, maybe tomorrow.
A red flag from the article:
He had thick dark hair and a warm, friendly smile that invited trust. His eyes were hazel-green, with the quality of canceling out the whole of the world that wasn’t her, their current focus.
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