Is There Any Hope At All For Psychopaths?

Bad Decision Makers?

People have argued that psychopaths are not evil at heart but are just really bad decision makers. Joshua Buckholtz, an associate professor of psychology at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, ran tests on 49 prison inmates where they were asked to choose between getting less money immediately or more money later. The ventral striatum which is a region in the brain became instantly very active in participants who appeared highly sociopathic on the PCR-L scale.