The Sociopath Next Door (32 page)

Chapter 10. Bernie's Choice: Why Conscience Is Better

virtually identical Y chromosomes are carried by almost 8 percent:
T. Zerjal et al., “The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols,”
American Journal of Human Genetics
72 (2003): 717–721.

Laboratory experiments using electric shocks and loud noises:
See, for example, J. Ogloff and S. Wong, “Electrodermal and Cardiovascular Evidence of a Coping Response in Psychopaths,”
Criminal Justice and Behavior
17 (1990): 231–245. See also A. Raine and P. Venables, “Skin Conductance Responsivity in Psychopaths to Orienting, Defensive, and Consonant Vowel Stimuli,”
Journal of Psychophysiology
2 (1988), 221–225.

A major comorbidity study published in 1990:
D. Regier et al., “Comorbidity of Mental Disorders with Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse: Results from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
264 (1990): 2511–2518.

Another study, published in 1993:
R. Brooner, L. Greenfield, C. Schmidt, and G. Bigelow, “Antisocial Personality Disorder and HIV Infection Among Intravenous Drug Abusers,”
American Journal of Psychiatry
150 (1993): 53–58.

lives in a torment of hypochondriacal reactions:
See Guze, R. Woodruff, and P. Clayton, “Hysteria and Antisocial Behavior: Further Evidence of an Association,”
American Journal of Psychiatry
127 (1971): 957–960, and L. Robins,
Deviant Children Grown Up: A Sociological and Psychiatric Study of Sociopathic Personality.

Perhaps the most famous historical example:
For one account, see L. Heston and R. Heston,
Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler: His Illnesses, Doctors, and Drugs
(New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000).

In a systematic study of such people:
See A. Colby and W. Damon,
Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment
(New York: Free Press, 1992), p. 262, and A. Colby and W. Damon, “The Development of Extraordinary Moral Commitment,” in
Morality in Everyday Life: Development Perspectives,
eds. M. Killen and D. Hart, p. 364.

Chapter 11. Groundhog Day

Tillie is someone personality theorist Theodore Millon would call:
See T. Millon and R. Davis, “Ten Subtypes of Psychopathy,” in
Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal, and Violent Behavior,
eds. T. Millon et al., and the first note for chapter 4, which concerns Millon's subtypes.

Chapter 12. Conscience in Its Purest Form: Science Votes for Morality

Vietnamese Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh:
T. Hanh,
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
(New York: Bantam Books, 1992).

Jewish theologian and philosopher Martin Buber:
M. Buber,
Between Man and Man
(New York: Collier Books, 1965), p. 117.

psychologist Daniel Goleman and His Holiness the Dalai Lama:
D. Goleman (Narrator),
Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama
(New York: Bantam Dell, 2003), p. 12.

More specifically, the Dalai Lama said:
Mind and Life Institute,
Investigating the Mind: Exchanges between Buddhism and the Biobehavioral Sciences on How the Mind Works
, sound recording (Berkeley, CA: Conference Recording Service, Inc., 2003).

As ways to increase life satisfaction:
See M. Seligman's groundbreaking book on positive psychology,
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
(New York: Free Press, 2002).

“The Wise Woman's Stone”:
A version of this parable can be found in A. Lenehan, ed.,
The Best of Bits and Pieces
(Fairfield, NJ: Economics Press, 1994), p. 73.

Conscience is the still small voice:
I would like to thank the eminent international relations scholar James A. Nathan for pointing out to me (personal communication) that the transliterated Hebrew phrase
kol demama dakah
(that still small voice within) derives from a story about the prophet Elijah, “who experienced fires, earthquakes, and assorted terrors, and then the still small voice of God and conscience.”

about the author

MARTHA STOUT,
Ph.D., was trained at the famous McLean Psychiatric Hospital and is a practicing psychologist and a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of
The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness
and has been featured on Fox News, National Public Radio, KABC, and many other broadcasts. She lives on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stout, Martha, 1953–
The sociopath next door : the ruthless versus the rest of us /
Martha Stout—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Psychopaths. 2. Antisocial personality disorders. I. Title.

RC555.S76 2004
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