Evil Genes by Oakley, Barbara -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page CONTENTS FOREWORD PREFACE INTRODUCTION

The Successfully Sinister Sleuthing with the Sciences A Revolution in Research Putting the Puzzle Together

CHAPTER 1: IN SEARCH OF MACHIAVELLI

Richard Christie Founds a New Discipline The Ubiquity of the Sinister Perverse Admiration: The Development of a Test for Machiavellianism

CHAPTER 2: PSYCHOPATHY

Antisocial Personality Disorder But What Is a Psychopath? Sadism The Role of Genes and Environment The Genetics of Psychopathy

CHAPTER 3: EVIL GENES

Machiavellian Genes

Serotonin Receptors and Behavior The Long and the Short of It—Serotonin Transporters Pleiotropy—The Naughty-Nice Aspects of “Evil Genes” Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Warrior or Worrier? The COMT Gene Monoamine Oxidase A Other Moody Genes

Emergenic Phenomena Why We Can't Simply Eliminate “Evil” Genes

CHAPTER 4: USING MEDICAL IMAGING TO UNDERSTAND PSYCHOPATHS

Looking Inside the Brain of a Psychopath Emotion and Language Low Response to Threatening Stimuli and Empathy Impairment Lack of Anxiety Executive Dysfunction Emotional Control—Affective and Predatory Murderers Problems with Abstract Reasoning Seeing the Human Conscience Why Does Psychopathy Develop? Empathy and Mirror Neurons Successful Psychopaths

CHAPTER 5: INSIGHTS FROM MY SISTER'S LOVE LETTERS

The Early Years The Missing Decade Memories of Carolyn The Letters

CHAPTER 6: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MACHIAVELLIANISM AND PERSONALITY DISORDERS

The Dimensional Approach to Understanding Personality Disorders McHoskey's Findings Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Coping Behaviors The Impact of Borderline Personality Disorder on Others

CHAPTER 7: SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: THE BUTCHER OF THE BALKANS

The Quintessential Machiavellian: Slobodan Milosevic Identity Disturbance The DSM-IV Description of Borderline Personality Disorder Was Milosevic a Borderline? The Dimensional Approach to Describing Borderline Personality Disorder Was Milosevic a Psychopath? Personal Impact: Milosevic and My Family

CHAPTER 8: LENSES, FRAMES, AND HOW BROKEN BRAINS WORK

Lenses and Frames Neurological Systems and How They Function to Regulate Emotion

The Cerebral Cortex The Limbic System Neural Connections

But What's the Big Picture? A Link with the Immune System? Overlapping Personality Disorders

CHAPTER 9: THE PERFECT “BORDERPATH”: CHAIRMAN MAO

Mao as Borderpath

The Early Years Early Antisocial Tendencies Markedly Disturbed Relationships The Confusing Façade—Sympathy with Little Empathy Impulsivity Poorly Regulated Emotions Drug and Sexual Addictions Cognitive-Perceptual Impairment Control and the Purges Sadism Ability to Charm Narcissism Paranoia Mao's Manipulation

Did Mao Believe in Communism? Endgame and Aftermath

CHAPTER 10: EVOLUTION AND MACHIAVELLIANISM

Tit for Tat Throwing Away the Steering Wheel Blink and You'll Miss It—The Quickness of Evolution Baldwinian Evolution Can Culture Create Machiavellians? Gold Diggers, Stable Sinister Systems, and the Slow-Motion Implosion of Empires Defining “Machiavellian” Linda Mealey

CHAPTER 11: SHADES OF GRAY

Narcissism, Deceit, Humbleness, and Conscience

Temper, Temper, Temper Cognitive Function and Dysfunction

Delusions

THE DELUSIONS OF DICTATORS THE DELUSIONS OF MADMEN

Personality Underlies Ideology Ambition and Control The Surprising Attributes So, Are the Successfully Sinister Really Different? Naivete Warren Buffett—Multifaceted Genius Healthy Cynicism

CHAPTER 12: THE SUN ALSO SHINES ON THE WICKED

Evil and Free Will Who Are the Successfully Sinister? How Can You Tell? Carolyn

AFTERWORD FOR PONDERING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TEXT CREDITS ILLUSTRATION CREDITS ENDNOTES GLOSSARY INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR