The 'Sociopath' Personality

• inconsistencies between what a person says and does

• excuses or subject changing when caught in a lie

• no feeling of shame when caught in an embarrassing situation

• going around the question, answering it in a way that doesn’t really answer it

• ability to sense vulnerabilities and motivated in using them for personal gain or pleasure, manipulate without remorse

• seeing any social situation as a contest or a test

• ability to understand rules and laws and judging them as a part of "the game", but no ability for empathy or emotional understanding behind the rules

• poorly connected speech and abundance of excuses, during speech using more hand gestures than normal. These tendencies reflect difficulty in converting thoughts and feelings into speech repeatedly performing acts that can serve as grounds for arrest

• irritability and aggressiveness, indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults

• disregard for safety of self or others

• cruelty to animal

• Superficial charm and good intelligence

• Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking

• Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations

• Unreliability

• Untruthfulness and insincerity

• Lack of remorse and shame

• Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior

• Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience

• Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love

• General poverty in major affective reactions

• Specific loss of insight

• Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations

• Fantastic and uninviting behavior with alcohol and sometimes without

• Suicide threats rarely carried out

• Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated

• Failure to follow any life plan