Introduction: “I didn’t know what made people want to be friends. I didn’t know what made people attractive to one another. I didn’t know what underlay social interactions.” This was said by the infamous serial killer, Ted Bundy. While my speech today isn’t going to be about serial killers, Ted Bundy is part of another category; psychopaths. This quote shows the most basic characteristics used to describe a psychopath - someone having no emotion and not being able to connect with others on a personal level. But, there’s more to understanding psychopaths than meets the eye. Specific purpose: To inform my audience about psychopaths Central Idea: The characteristics, the theories regarding psychopathy, and different ways to identify a psychopath. …show more content…
Affective - moods and personalities of psychopaths, which can be characterized as feeling no remorse or guilt for their actions. In 2012, the FBI described that when psychopathic killers describe their actions, they say that something “had to be done,” which shows their lack of guilt and placing the blame on the victim. (no remorse) B. Interpersonal - communication between people. The interpersonal skills of a psychopath on the surface seem outstanding, but when picked apart it’s a different story. Dr. Scott Bonn (Ph.D criminology professor) states that psychopaths feel no emotions, so to make up for the lack of emotions they’re extremely manipulative and mimic human emotions, in turn causing them to have good relationships with others to get what they want (killing) C. Lifestyle - psychopaths way of life can oftentimes be hard to tell at first because they live normally like others do. Dr. Scott Bonn states that psychopaths live normal lives- they’re able to maintain a job and even develop relationships but they mimic human emotions so that their partners or other people never suspect anything. D. Antisocial - focuses more on …show more content…
(advantage) B. Frontal lobe of the brain research Nadica Buzina’s 2012 article- she talks about the amygdala, which controls our anger and fear and is located in the frontal lobe, as cause of psychopathy. Elsevier reports a study done where criminals who’ve been diagnosed with having anti-personality disorder were compared to patients who have damage to their frontal lobes, healthy people, and people who have damage to other parts of their brain. The results were that psychopaths most resembled those with damage to their frontal lobes. III. A psychopath can be observed through verbal and nonverbal communication Word choice shows a lot FBI - when looking at speech patterns of psychopaths, they’re the ones who tend to use “um” and “uh” more often while describing their