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Psychopathy's Bright Side: Kevin Dutton on the Benefits of Being a Bit Psychopathic, Part 2

Kevin Dutton is a psychologist at the University of Oxford. He talks about his latest book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success














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Kevin Dutton is a psychologist at the University of Oxford. He talks about his latest book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success.


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  1. 1. frankblank 09:46 PM 12/29/12

    You can make a million a year as lobbyist Wayne Lapper, a man up to his nose in blood money.

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  2. 2. lbreed 08:08 PM 12/31/12

    i only listened to a short part of the interview, but it seems that mr. dutton takes a very poorly defined entity(psychopathy), and extracts any quality to apply to his examples. psychopathy is so poorly defined that almost any quality is available for expropriation,especially if one has a thesis to support.

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