The Wisdom of Psychopaths - Rilegato

Dutton, Kevin

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ISBN 10: 0385677189 ISBN 13: 9780385677189

Casa editrice: Doubleday Canada, 2012

Riassunto

Psychopath. The word conjurs up images of serial killers, rapists, suicide bombers, gangsters. But think again: you could probably benefit from being a little more psychopathic yourself.

Psychologist Kevin Dutton has made a speciality of psychopathy, and is on first-name terms with many notorious killers. But unlike those incarcerated psychopaths, and all those depicted in movies and crime fiction, most are not violent, he explains. In fact, says Prof Dutton, they have a lot of good things going for them. Psychopaths are fearless, confident, charismatic and focused--qualities tailor-made for success in today's society.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths is an intellectual rollercoaster ride that combines lightning-hot science with unprecedented access to secret monasteries, Special Forces training camps, and high-security hospitals. In it, you will meet serial killers, war heroes, financiers, movie stars and attorneys--and discover that beneath the hype and popular characterization, psychopaths have something to teach us. 

Like the knobs on a mixing deck, psychopathy is graded. And finding the right combination of psychopathic traits, sampled and mixed at carefully calibrated volumes, can put us ahead of the game.

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Recensione:

“An enjoyable, breezy treatment of a provocative subject.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Dutton spins a solid yarn, turning what could easily have been a dry survey of psych research into entertainment.”
—Fortune

"Kevin Dutton is simply a genius. I now tell his stories as if they were my own."
—Andy McNab

L'autore:

KEVIN DUTTON was born in London in 1967. He has a Ph.D in psychology, and is an expert on the science of social influence. He is a research fellow at the Faraday Institute, St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, and at the University of Western Australia, in Perth. In Split-Second Persuasion, his first book, Dr. Dutton documents time spent with some of the world's top con artists, in his quest to find out whether these evil black-belts of mind control know more about persuasion than he does. Kevin is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and also of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. The author lives in Cambridge, UK.

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• Editore: Doubleday Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0385677189
• ISBN 13: 9780385677189
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288