U.S. Presidents And Psychopathy

Presidents are often criticized for not being able to relate to regular people. They've been called everything from socialists to psychopaths.
But just how psychopathic are America's leaders?

In his book The Wisdom of Psychopaths, researcher Kevin Dutton explored just how similar the country's presidents and psychopaths really are.

Dutton describes psychopaths as brilliant, calculating, often highly intelligent people, who feel no emotion and don't even understand what an emotion is or why non-psychopaths feel them.

Steven Rubenzer and Thomas Fashingbauer, a forensic psychologist and professor of psychology respectively, sent a personality survey used to determine psychopathy to the biographers of every U.S. president in history.

The biographers had to complete the survey based on how they thought their subject would respond.

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