{"id":73870,"date":"2012-09-12T01:14:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18288"},"modified":"2012-09-12T01:14:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T09:14:52","slug":"an-evil-disposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/12\/an-evil-disposition\/","title":{"rendered":"An evil disposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/09\/pedophiles-born-that-way\/\">thread below<\/a> on the possibility of pedophilia being a biologically mediated tendency rapidly degenerated, to no one&#8217;s surprise. As I didn&#8217;t have the time to engage in strict moderation I had to close it. And I don&#8217;t want to reopen that particular topic. <strong>Rather, I want to focus on the issue of psychopathy exhibiting some genetic disposition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want to assert immediately that I&#8217;m not positing that you&#8217;re born a psychopath like you&#8217;re born with red hair. Rather, psychopathy is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychopathy\">set of traits<\/a> whose upstream causes can be both genetic and non-genetic. In fact some cases of psychopathic behavior seems to be rooted in extreme social and psychological deprivation (e.g., orphanages in underdeveloped countries). Interestingly, this may be a case where the environmental input reshapes the developing brain, so that even though the individual may lack a genetic predisposition toward a particular psychology, they may now be biological oriented toward all the traits associated with psychopathy because of the nature of their neurological development.<\/p>\n<p>Going to the model where some people exhibit a genetic disposition toward psychopathy, there are two dichotomous models I&#8217;d like to outline. First, there is a model where psychopathy is a deviation from the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thread below on the possibility of pedophilia being a biologically mediated tendency rapidly degenerated, to no one&#8217;s surprise. As I didn&#8217;t have the time to engage in strict moderation I had to close it. And I don&#8217;t want to reopen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73870"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73993,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73870\/revisions\/73993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}