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Everything You Need to Know About a Psychopath Is In Their Eyes
What is really behind the psychopathic stare?
Who is the psychopath, really? For most people, they think of serial killers when they hear this word. Strange, sometimes charismatic, loners who take the lives of people because of deranged fantasies. That’s one side of the coin, but it doesn’t represent the entire picture.
Psychopaths are everywhere. In our homes, our boardrooms, teaching our children at school. This specifically toxic type of individual can do a lot of damage, both intentionall and unintentionally. Not all of them are serial killers, though. Their dangerous traits can manifest in a number of ways.
Including that infamous stare. The psychopathic stare. What’s behind it? As we learn more and more about it, we learn more and more about the mind of a person who is devoid of the most human parts of life’s experience.
What is the psychopathic stare?
There have long been stories of the “black-eyed” stare that marks so many psychopaths. Lingering, perverse, and soul-chilling, this once allegoric trait has now been confirmed by multiple studies. But what is it? What really constitutes a psychopathic stare?
