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Jon ronson is an investigative journalist. He investigates the'madness industry' and the 'pcl-r' test for psychopathy.



Cons

Most books lengthen your attention span, this one is like scrolling on a twitter feed. Like a religious cult, once you've been indoctrinated in some theory, you never question and blindly accept it. Almost any relevant content to psychopathy can be fo...  Read More

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Inspired me to get out of the boring comfort zone i feel most people live in 😂


The pursuit of a definition of psychopathy leads ronson to the pclr checklist the titular “psychopath test” devised used and t...  Read More


Great writing style and there were tons of elements that made me smile or grin sometimes


Had to stop every few pages to absorb and highlight

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I would not take anything at face value included in this book about psychopath but it is an entertaining read

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    mental, various and subject.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 11,210 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 15 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    There were some annoying parts showing the writer’s lack of knowledge about easily available information the vaccines cause autism 911 was an inside job and he labelled david icke nothing else but a conspiracy theorist without knowing anything about his work


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    I would not take anything at face value included in this book about psychopath but it is an entertaining read


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It starts when he almost gets sued for defamation after getting quoted in the press ignorantly referring to someone as “quite psychopathic


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    For example when discussing one psychologist’s experienceshe was interviewing a psychopath


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    He said he didn’t know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It’s worth bearing in mind throughout the book that this is investigative journalism and not science and ronson doesn’t pretend anything else


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This kind of material could easily have descended into something resembling a freak show but ronson has doesn’t do that the subject and the people involved are all portrayed with respect and sensitivity

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