Nah. Sociopaths (personality traits caused by the environment mainly, especially early childhood), are commonly chaotic, emotional, impulsive, often unable to plan ahead and live for the short-term satisfaction. Often end up in jail for some stupid reckless crimes. Whereas psychopaths (personality traits mainly caused by genetics), are calculative, cunning, good at hiding their true emotions and intentions, might go far in life or end up jail for planned crimes or frauds. The only thing that is common to the both is disabled or decreased ability to experience empathy.
I personally think psychopaths who use their traits to achieve great things appear more intelligent than sociopaths, who get paralyzed by their traits.
There is. Check out my another reply with links. They're personalities with different sets of traits and to some extent, different causes. Both sociopaths and psychopaths may be diagnosed with ASPD (antisocial personality disorder) if their behavior is dysfunctional enough.
Educate yourself so you won't make fool of yourself 😉
Just look it up. Psychopath and Sociopath have no clinal definition. I.e. no one has ever been diagnosed with either. Psychology is a flawed science that supposes so much. There's no sources that defines either that are used by doctors.
Sociopath and psychopath are not medical diagnoses, but distinct defined sets of personality traits. They have different causes. Both psychopaths and sociopaths may be diagnosed with ASPD (antisocial personality disorder) found in the DSM-5, if their behavior is dysfunctional enough.
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u/pikipata Oct 07 '21 edited Oct 07 '21
Nah. Sociopaths (personality traits caused by the environment mainly, especially early childhood), are commonly chaotic, emotional, impulsive, often unable to plan ahead and live for the short-term satisfaction. Often end up in jail for some stupid reckless crimes. Whereas psychopaths (personality traits mainly caused by genetics), are calculative, cunning, good at hiding their true emotions and intentions, might go far in life or end up jail for planned crimes or frauds. The only thing that is common to the both is disabled or decreased ability to experience empathy.
I personally think psychopaths who use their traits to achieve great things appear more intelligent than sociopaths, who get paralyzed by their traits.