Dictator Psychology

commonalities of dictators:
 positives:
  glib and charming
  grandiose sense of self
  charisma
  pathological lying
  manipulative and cunning
  lack of remorse or guilt
  emotionally shallow
  lack of empathy, callousness
  deflect responsibility for actions
  poor early behavioral control
  hypersexuality (or asexuality)
  impulsiveness
  irresponsible (but know how to cover their tracks)
 negatives:
  unusual need for stimulation
  socially deviant lifestyle
  abusive
  sexually deviant
  sadistic
  malignant narcissism
  insatiable appetites
  excellent memories
  terrible taste in art
  marry very poorly
  short
dictators are psychopathic + anti social personality disorder (criminal behavior)
1% of women are psychopathic
3% of men are psychopathic
psychopaths are usefull for society
good memory gene but anxiety
many dictators have (malignant) narcissistic traits:
 having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
 being preoccupied with fantasies about success, power or beauty
 believing that you are special and can associate only with equally special people
 requiring constant admiration
 having a sense of entitlement
 taking advantage of others
 having an inability to recognize needs and feelings of others
 being envious of others
 behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner
dictator pyramid:
        hate
       murder
       sadism
 malignant narcissism
     psychopathy
psychopathology 3 legged stool:
  abuse
  high vulnerability genetic alleles (genes for aggression, violence, lack of bonding)
  functional brain loss orbital/medial PFC, amygdala
serial killers have 2 areas in the brain, the orbital cortex and the amygdala that are malformed
mature adult prefrontal system in balance
  cold cognition (reason)
  hot cognition (emotion + ethics + morality)
dictators have different mirror neuron system
  feeds into the prefrontal emotional area of the brain
  insula
dictators have different right side (non dominant) prefrontal cortex
  determines which political party you are
  risk/reward
  artistic inhibition
  punishment
  plan to deceive
  resisting temptation
  male orgasm
  memory of the future
paranoid
warrior gene affects serotonin
more psychopath genes are transferred to males
warrior genes:
  MAOA-L
  serotonin transporter
  NE transporter
  TH (TPH1,2)
  androgen receptor
  DAGK1
  DBH
  COMT
  NOS1
  vasopressin AVPR1A
violent neighborhoods causes girls to choose tough guys which drives genetics towards warriors