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Arielle Baskin-Sommers

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“Some of our recent work has focused on how to change the mind of a psychopath. In 2015, together with John Curtin and Joseph Newman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we developed a computerised training package aimed at helping psychopaths attend to information outside their immediate goals. For six weeks, in one hour per week, participants played games that involved learning to integrate emotional and non-emotional information with their immediate goals. At the end of this training, psychopaths showed improvement, which suggests that it is possible to identify and target the cognitive-emotional dysfunctions of psychopathy, and that neural and behavioural patterns can be changed, even for what might be the most recalcitrant population.”

— Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them? – Arielle Baskin-Sommers | Aeon Ideas

Tagged: Science, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology

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