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Using charm or wit to manipulate others for personal gain or for sheer personal pleasure
Repeatedly violating the rights of others by the use of intimidation, dishonesty and misrepresentation
Lack of empathy for others and lack of remorse about harming others
Genetics: Some people may have genes that make them vulnerable to developing
antisocial personality disorder, those who have a biological parent who has APD are more
vulnerable to developing APD.
Environment: The surrounding a person has may also affect their risk of developing
APD. An early lack of empathy or having a role model that has Antisocial tendencies, can
makes someone more likely to develop APD.
There is also no sure way to prevent APD, Although trying to identify those
most at risk early on, such as children living with neglect or abuse, and
offering early intervention may help prevent APD.
Insomnia
Suicidal behavior
Psychological
Jeffrey Dahmer: Also known as the "Milwaukee Cannibal", was a serial killer
that terrorized Milwaukee, Wisconsin from the eighties and nineties, earning
the reputation as one of the most infamous killers in American history.
Dahmer's murders were cruel and sickening, He is credited with killing more
than 15 young boys. Dahmer showed early signs of APD in childhood.
Famous with APD Cont.
Tommy Lynn Sells: Famously known as the Coast to Coast Killer, he
claimed to have killed more than 20 - 50 people as he traveled through the
country. He was abandoned and later lived with a man in his hometown who
sexually abused him from age 13 - 15 when he left and traveled as a
transient, he committed his first murder at the age of 15 in Mississippi.
Dahmer
Bundy Sells
References
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/b
asics/definition/con-20030111
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201205/the-10-p
ersonality-disorders
https://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/antisocial-personality-dis
order
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/sociopath-psychopath-
difference
References Cont.
http://www.psychohelp.at/h/college/abnormal/aspd.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy
http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Anterior%20Insular%20Cortex%20and%20
Emotional%20Awareness.pdf
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121024175240.htm
http://neurocritic.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/the-stylized-neuroscience-of-psych
opaths.html
https://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70136126?trkid=200250784