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What percentage of the population have the brain anomaly associated with the inability to exhibit empathy?
In short, the question cannot be answered as-is. I will explain why, and then answer a broader question that you may find useful instead.
Reverse Inference:
As background, consider the common ...
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What's the difference between flaws of character and a personality disorder?
There is a clear definition of what a personality disorder is. The Wikipedia article on Personality Disorders lists the criteria given in the DSM-5 and ICD-10. Take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/...
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What's the difference between flaws of character and a personality disorder?
A personality flaw can be a trait or behaviour that is conscious and the person usually has control over it, whereas a personality disorder is a long enduring pattern of defensive behavior that lies ...
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Do most people want to murder?
[Just addressing your title question:] supposedly so, but there isn't a lot of data on this. One of David Buss' students has this in his PhD thesis:
participants from the Austin
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What is the matrix of self and the outside world, evil and good?
This may not totally match your description (the person's worldview, the evilness of the viewed objects), but it's quite analogous to the table of style of attachment, so I put it here.
I do notice ...
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On a variation of Trolley's problem. How to explain the survey's results?
The two problems might seem to be equivalent but they aren't - in the "John" scenario those advocating not to arrest John and harvest his delicious organs are pointing out that:
that John should ...
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How is hypnosis not mind control?
Since I vaguely remember a similar question not that long ago, let me use this one to quote from one the few peer-reviewed papers (doi link; preprint pdf). that discusses the notion of "mind control":
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How moral reasoning is measured?
It really depends on your theory. If you can write measurement of morality in google scholar you would find many morality theories and attempts to measure it such as (Ziv, 1976). Most theories, as ...
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Are Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development supported by empirical evidence?
what about
Kay, S. R.: 1982, ‘Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development: Critical Analysis of Validation Studies with the Defining Issues Test’, International Journal of Psychology 17, 27–42.
Abstract
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How does people's sense of right and wrong affect their behavior?
This is an interesting question which seems that even the experts are still investigating it to a degree.
Take a look at the links I provide in this answer and look at the conformity studies like the ...
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Do most people want to murder?
This is a very interesting question.
I think that there are many both conscious and unconscious factors that determine destructive behavior. The conflict between the id and super-ego (mediated by ego)...
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Is a concept of good and bad innate or learned?
Psychologically, guilt can be described as "a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined" (Dictionary.com).
Guilt is an emotion triggered by a ...
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What are some reasons that make rule-based reasoning about morality more intuitive than utilitarian reasoning?
I don't know if this really answers your question, but at a high level, rule-based reasoning about anything is more intuitive. By this I mean, rules are heuristics-- and having heuristics makes for ...
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Superego and Moral Standards
The Superego is a fairly flimsy concept under empirical scrutiny and is typically measured only in clinical settings. Arlow (1982), notes that the way it is measured or appears is often unreliable and ...
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What is the most accurate method of discerning between “irredeemable evil” and “temporary insanity”?
The lexical approach may assist. The lexical hypothesis states that, ‘All aspects of human personality, which are or have been of importance, interest or utility, have already become recorded in the ...
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What is the most accurate method of discerning between “irredeemable evil” and “temporary insanity”?
It almost seems like a two-valued judgment, where you either have the trait or don't, but the context seems to matter. Someone may perform irredeemably evil acts, yet go home to their family with whom ...
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What percentage of the population have the brain anomaly associated with the inability to exhibit empathy?
Kent Kiehl's work may be the closest means of determining this. According to an interview, he states "psychopaths have 5 to 10 percent reduced gray matter density in and around the limbic regions [a ...
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How does Kohlberg's moral reasoning work, can I measure it myself?
That can't be answered with one particular stage because:
Another criticism of Kohlberg’s theory is that people frequently demonstrate significant inconsistency in their moral judgements.[26] This ...
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Moral Foundations Theory and trigger word combinations
I am a research psychologist working with moral foundations theory and messaging and I haven't seen these particular questions addressed. But you maybe interested to see work that uses different ...
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