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7. There is a way to identify psychopaths, and research is making is easier than ever to identify them. A psychopath will not feel remorse or empathy so this could be viewed. There is no physical distinction, but there are brain scans that can be done that show the difference of a psychopath brain and a brain of a non psychopathic person. MRI imaging could help scientists determine if a person is a psychopath or not. 8. Psychopaths can be identified if there is enough known about their characteristics. They are all typical and have very typical characteristics. 9. I think the author is very credible with the way that the tone is portrayed. The author knows much about the scale of psychopaths and how one can be identified. There is an example given of a psychopath that was on trial which gives a greater connection to the topic. 10. Scores their pathology on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, which measures traits such as the inability to feel empathy or remorse, pathological lying or impulsivity.  The average person in the community, a male, will score about 4 or 5. Your average inmate will score about 22. An individual with psychopathy is typically described as a 30 or above. All psychopaths claim they feel terrible about their crimes for the benefit of the parole board. They cannot access their emotions because their physical brains are different. Kiehl says most psychopaths do not differ from normal subjects in the way they rate the photos: Both psychopaths and the average person rank the KKK with a burning cross as a moral violation. But there's a key difference: Psychopaths' brains behave differently from that of a non psychopathic person. When a normal person sees a morally objectionable photo, his limbic system lights up. This is what Kiehl calls the "emotional circuit," involving the orbital cortex above the eyes and the amygdala deep in the brain. But Kiehl says when psychopaths like Dugan see the KKK picture, their emotional circuit does not engage in the same way. Someone shouldn't be executed for a condition that they were born with, because it's not their fault. 
 * 1) How are psychopaths brains different from other peoples brains?
 * 2) Inside a Psychopaths brain: the sentencing debate
 * 3) Barbara Bradley Hagerty
 * 4) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128116806
 * 5) Website though google, 5/22/14
 * S: Psychopath brain and how it works
 * O: Identifying a psychopath on trial and if a person is truly a psychopath or not
 * A: Jury, judges, anyone interested about how a psychopaths brain works and is different
 * P: Psychopaths on trial and committing dangerous crimes against other humans
 * S: Kent Kiehl and Barbara Bradley Hagerty
 * Tone: Informative, cautious