What Causes Sociopathy?
Identification Also known as a psychopath, a sociopath is someone who takes advantage of others by lying, stealing and cheating, while remaining unaffected by his actions. Sociopaths suffer from an antisocial personality disorder. Characterized by behavioral abnormalities, sociopaths are people who show an inability for feeling guilt or empathy and disregard the feelings of other people. Often, they tend to be egocentric and violate moral, social and legal norms. They lack the normal restraints of fear, such as sweating, having a dry mouth and tense muscles, that constrains the behavior of normal people from breaking the law. Size Sociopaths make up about three to five percent of the general population. Roughly three out of 100 males and one out of 100 females have the disorder, according to a 1994 publication of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Causes It’s not certain what causes someone to become a sociopath; however, it’s believed to be caused by nature, nurture or abnorm
