Strange answers to the psychopath test - Jon Ronson

[@danielmckeown3290]

At the end I kept expecting a twist like he was actually insane or a serial killer or something. I know that wasn't the point of the talk but it was built up perfectly

[@Kosaro1234]

It's seems to me that being a psychopath is more of an advantage than a disorder.

[@moonanddarkness]

Psychopaths are harmful for society in general but had a higher survival chance in the wild.

[@dexterlecter7289]

Kosaro Its lonely but that's the only downside. Although a low intelligence one will have an extremely hard time. A high intelligence one will learn how to act but it will lead to an isolated life.

[@dexterlecter7289]

Nyx & Hemera I disagree. You can be a psychopath who has a logically based morality. In fact logical morality is a better way of approaching it then anything in the past...

[@moonanddarkness]

Dexter Lecter Isn't that a sociopath?

[@dexterlecter7289]

Nyx & Hemera I could be wrong but my understanding is that a psychopath is some one born with the condition and a sociopath is some one that was put through trauma so bad that they developed the condition. I personally think that an empathy is universal and psychologists are full of shit to assume some one doesn't have an empathy. I think that they can shut theirs down and are prone to creating fantasies that merge way too close with reality. Honestly though I am not sure what the DSM says in regards to the differences but that would be the source to consult for broadly accepted answers. Most of the serial killers that I've studied have had tramatic childhoods and once caught they say that parents need to pay better attention to kids and respect their feelings instead of treating them badly, that to me implies that they do have a conscious. Ted Bundy was speaking out against porn before he was executed. Interesting enough, violent rape porn used to be illegal until Obama administration shut down the part of the justice department that monitors that. Rick Santorum was the only person to speak out about it and he got ridiculed big time by the ignorant liberals. Not saying liberals are ignorant but generally the ones with an agenda seem to be for whatever reason.

[@Thuy.Hoang267]

I don't know much about psychopaths and I don't care what this man says is right or wrong either. I still love his talk. One of the best TED talk to me.

[@armanhadi777]

This video has transcended to art. A very deep subject explored in a most conducive manner.

[@ShawnRavenfire]

"We're all mad here." ~ Cheshire Cat

[@ladiesman21747]

I absolutely love the study of the mind and think psychology has its place and needs to be studied. I also think it is still very young and misguided subject it is still learning things. Maybe in a couple hundred years it will be more accurate then it is now. Also the DSM is a very silly book and needs to rethink its existence.

[@albietbeck]

Because the both times that Tony was sent to jail it was for beating someone up in a bar.

[@sarabicaku562]

Wow this was AWESOME 👏👏

[@AvnishCPatel]

My favorite part was when the music played at the end where he was saying "grey area in a world that doesn't like grey areas." Something about that bit was reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes/Series of Unfortunate Events. i suppose a Victorian vibe.

[@wanabevic]

i agree, to call someone completely sane is a bigger lie than saying someone is a complete psychopath

[@jamesinosaka]

Good lord, the music ruined the presentation. It was way too distracting, disruptive to listening and understanding the message. If dropped to half volume it might have been okay.

[@Nnaycol]

This is one of my favorite talks, just brilliant

[@mikan1998ful]

one of my fave ted talks...absolutely amazing

[@SR-hl5vz]

bro who else thought this guy was tony? lol, that would have been a great twist, eveyone would have freaked the F out.

[@harsha345155]

No one is perfect!, DSM wants to rule out abnormal people or people who are not perfect, and someway we all come under it because 'NO ONE IS PERFECT', including the people who prepared the DSM!

[@jesushimself00]

is he denouncing capitalism or...? this really took a turn at 9:26.

[@NoConsequenc3]

+Calvin Cuff He doesn't back this up. There is nothing that suggests that these people exist more or less in capitalist societies. No data at all.

[@jesushimself00]

all ted talks are based on bogus emotional humanitarian appeals

[@NoConsequenc3]

Chandler Booker They've always existed. Sad part is that they get away with calling it "science" these days

[@departmentofanalytics1116]

I sincerely hope he is just quoting the Scientologist guy.

[@calebsanders5689]

I understand why he didn't go to have a drink with him but it was a bit rude

[@fandju111]

Caleb Sanders why he didnt go?

[@JMyapiliscious]

+Caleb Sanders why didn't he go?

[@alderstifen7738]

+Caleb Sanders Tony might of thought that he was 'repaying' him for what he's done, rejecting that says 'you don't need to repay me' or 'I helped, I don't expect payment'. Maybe just me :P

[@BricksOfAwesome]

This creeped me out at points, but still interesting.

[@potterj09]

Love his Overlook Hotel shirt 😂

[@ljarabek]

amazing

[@VOLKAERIN]

I loved this one.

[@JuanCardona1A]

Everytime I see one of these psycology shit I feel crazier and crazier. The psycopath check list??? are you serious? THAT IS JUST CRAAAAAZY.

[@privychanneldavy]

I was trying to watch Jon Ronson but there's some strange music concert going on in the back ground.. why have 2 acts playing at the same time? Weird from TED

[@agiomagikos]

A sociopath is partially someone that can’t be manipulative without irrational emotions and unable to hide these emotions

[@SuperGamli]

The sound in the background is awful, it makes it hard to listen...

[@Tuitarlos.]

i think it´s the best one for this talk

[@6359tommy]

Wow. I'm a psychopath. Gotta go. My tigers are hungry.

[@mynameisawesomeman]

If you want to read a real book about mental illness, read Kesey's "One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest"

[@battlemanish]

did he just describe shutter islands plot?

[@Donnie7612]

@ Inside a Killer's Brain " A non killer syco path should be very worried about what this mans intentions of doing test on others brains should be very troubling, Take for instance a person with PTSD will show us as a serial Killer But is NOT! Should we not be worried, 80 vets a day take there own lives' Do we really need someone else making that decision to do it for them??? Think about that"

[@tomek1678]

Maybe being psychopathic is just being smarter then others and being better. While evryone doesn't want anyone above then so the normal people call the better people 'psychos' and trap them. thinking of killing is psycho but what's wrong with thinking when you don't do it? But if someone kills then anyone can take him to jail. I dont think we should trap anyone for thinking differently but we should trap people for giving threats to people. You may call me psycho but I think of killing, I think of eating 'wierd things' and I think that's totally fine

[@amicableenmity9820]

Not all sociopaths are smart, they're like normal people in that regard, some are well adjusted some are awkward. Also, impulsive thoughts are normal (I don't know if you have them or if you just take time out of your day to think about killing, either way, no offense meant)

[@maheshnayak6363]

This is just ❤

[@FloriF]

this is brilliant... will there be subtitles for this? i want to share it in a class at university where they mostly speak spanish

[@btwimbill]

Flori F is what would you have done ? went to the bar i’m so curious

[@jjjmanyo]

What about it was total rubbish? His point wasn't that psychology is lying, his point was that there needs to be more than one point of view on things. Many, MANY psychological practices have been disproven, a large portion of Freudian practices and theories have been completely debunked.

[@EpicPinkCreeper]

3:22 I didn't know that I thought my dog knows we think her yawn is cute and does it to make her like her when she does something bad. XD

[@snelgrave101]

I done the Bob Hare checklist I answered honestly and scored 31 out of 44 (Psycho I am).

[@nattybatty5052]

I read his book

[@ocarinafrek]

i thought at the end he would heve given a reason to not going, like hey you get into fights at bars, i dont want to be the next victim

[@btwimbill]

Asher Showalter what would you have done ? went to the bar i’m so curious

[@reidhb1]

Non-self consciousness is normal.

[@catalyzerlyzer7704]

I thought when he initially mentioned 'Tony', it was going to be about Tony Blair, considering he's a raging psychopath. I'm sure has nice fluffy 'grey areas' though. Interesting video.

[@MrXeltx]

12:03 hahaha that voice crack no one noticed

[@sai-codes]

holy shit that is some presentation

[@Reinisable]

in some places people pronounce the D as DG in EDGE

[@HIStory84]

I didn't listen till the end....but why I AM waiting for him to say at the end....... "Hi.. I AM Tony" ..... ?

[@yisiang9314]

can someone explain the part where he says tony was a grey area and why jon didnt accept tony's invitation to the bar

[@aa-zn6wf]

gray areas can mean undetermined. jon probably didn't go to the bar because he knew something would happen. alcohol does weird things to people, which was probably why tony landed in jail after a fight in a bar.

[@zenontherocks]

This is kind of what I think of when people talk about keeping guns out of the hands of people with "mental illness". It seems that with enough analysis, you can find anomalistic mental traits in pretty much anyone.

[@Kaeralho]

cool talk

[@Nukepositive]

No, people don't pronounce D as DG. Americans, because our mouths are lazy, take a D followed by a consonantal Y sound as a J sound, like "dija know?" So ed-yoo-kay-shun becomes e-joo-kay-shun.

[@sarac.3568]

I hope that music wasn't actually playing in there

[@SirDominus13]

yeah, you seam to be in a grey area...

[@mikecunningham4682]

I thought it was called that... I need to pay more attention.

[@hukapungyako2356]

Dude, watching this has turned me into a psychopath. This guys is out of his fuckin mind. And what it up with the creepy ass music?

[@szyl8595]

This is my favourite ted talk of all times. The music is annoying though

[@teggerzz]

How could he know, from his closing statement, anything about the real world? "We're all psychopathic" In there maybe

[@KrushaPatell]

Why didn’t he meet him for a drink?

[@doruksar9223]

Who are the two guys on the laptops and the other two which happen to have shadows on the blue curtain. Are they the same people? And are they monitoring the man talking? If so, Is that man who he wrote about as a sociopath?

[@CynicalOldDwarf]

That's just Daft Punk setting up for the after-show

[@dexterlecter7289]

Holy shit a guy with a brain, that's on Ted! This guy just so happens to see this as it is, not as its accepted to be without regard to the realities.

[@dexterlecter7289]

Dexter Lecter Harvard has a term for this grey area... They call it an "almost" psychopath.

[@oxm18]

I said that I don't believe in ghosts and they wrote that I have a psychosis, because I don't believe in ghosts they made an assumtion that I think that I can move objects with my mind!!!!!!!!!!

[@sandmtnirishred]

I would have suggested karaoke and beer

[@YtubeUserr]

The narrator is confused because in reality it's four categories and not one. He is trying to fit all the 4 categories of the dark-tetrad into one category and that has confused him. Some say it's dark-triad but experience will show it's a tetrad The DARK-TETRAD family: 1) Machiavellians 2) Psychopaths/Sociopaths 3) Narcissists 4) Sadists There is a lot of co-morbidity among the four groups, but more often than not you will see people who fall strictly into only one or two categories. And if you try to fit ALL of the dark-tetrad into one category, you will get confused just like the narrator has. Understand that all 4 categories can exist independently besides lots of co-morbidity. There is no confusion as far as the dark-tetrad goes. But what he said about the DSM not being clear and wrong diagnoses on bipolar and autism disorders is true. The USA has gone overboard a little on these two. Even schizophrenia is not completely understood. However, there is no mistaking the dark-tetrad (or dark-triad) conditions. The so called "grey area" is minimal if you clearly understand the 4 categories of the dark-tetrad.

[@YtubeUserr]

***** He is blissfully mixing the four. He is including the symptoms of the "other categories" into "psychopathy". The result is confusion and disillusionment towards psychology in general. Psychology is not perfect, but not in the way he is describing. This is just a person who has not sufficiently understood the topics.

[@Archietrex]

+Favilla Morty How would you define the difference between sociopathy and psychopathy?

[@YtubeUserr]

***** Sociopaths lack empathy too. One main difference is that while a psychopath engages in cold, calculated, remorseless destruction; the sociopath exhibits more impulsive tendencies towards destruction or might not even care for calculated destruction and harm. The other proposed main difference is a genetical versus environmental factor, but this does not have too many takers at the moment As a general rule, sociopaths prefer to cause untold suffering and strife without getting directly physical. Psychopaths don't mind causing untold suffering and strife through direct physical means. I have come across all combination of these 4 kinds of aforementioned monsters. Co-morbidity is high but some were pure variants too.

[@courteneystandridge6433]

A semi-psychopath is a sociopath isn't it?

[@cicadasmasher8082]

Neither feel for others. Psychopaths are born that way, sociopaths are created or turned.

[@Reinisable]

Depends on where you live...

[@jjjmanyo]

... which is an anomaly in humankind. Freudian theory stated that EVERY person was subject to this desire.

[@Reinisable]

Because the "D" in Ted and education are pronounced differently.

[@mikeoneil5741]

i noticed he left out politicians. few could argue stalin wasnt a psycopath.

[@FRTGameplays]

+mike oneil few could argue that stalin did anything stricly political....

[@PoZloDead]

Hi, my name is Tony.

[@gerardtalbot6244]

name one please :)

[@Zbog1]

I like otters. I'm sorry

[@MrJoelyboi20]

is it possible to say something that looks weird?

[@chinchin395]

how?....say ED then TED..DEAD BED RED SHED.....they all have the same D sound..

[@eltulkas]

mmm i already have seen this video....

[@SeabasstianTV]

just the levels, otherwise fine

[@Thejesusfreek316]

No they aren't.

[@mikan1998ful]

poor tony

[@InfamousSCardinal]

why didnt he go drink a beer with dude?

[@goldengold8568]

He was scared, because of the split the marriage and going to jail indecent, this guy might be thinking maybe he is a full psychopath.

[@gregorblueher]

or maybe he just didn´t feel comfortable with it. there are plenty of reasons, why we wouldn´t do that. i think his point is that either the decision to meet or to avoid him could be evidence for us being a psychopath.

[@chester6343]

My 20p, I think the point he was trying to make was although Tony was labelled a psychopath, claimed he wasn't and even after his release and somewhat proof of him in actual fact not being a psychopath, he's been labelled and stigmatized, there's a part of him that thinks he is a psychopath even if he's proved to everyone that he isn't, it's a big issue with the far left playing identity politics and labelling everyone, sticking everyone in there own little box when that box can be divided up infinitely, it's a dangerous game that can cause the opposite of what the left stand for, that is, division and not unity.

[@nahdarlin4800]

I think the reason why he didnt go was that he himself was uncertain whether the guy was sane or not because all the symptoms were so mixed and hard to diagnose, so he was simply scared

[@Zbog1]

try refreshing

[@Peanuts76]

😅😅😅

[@jenniferwang1025]

uhh, due respect, but i kinda think the man's a psychopath himself! XD

[@lokynokey4822]

I manipulate my teachers in school. MUAHAHAHAHA

[@itsnigora]

Wtf is he talking about? What a nonsense?

[@grytlappar]

I'm staring to truly hate TED talks.

[@warsilver99]

Would you say you aren't empathetic to TED talks and want to manipulate them? ;)

[@richardhall6762]

Fallacious politicized and a waste of time. This guy evidently skimmed thru some rubbish by Thomas Szasz and now he thinks he's clever. He could write for the New York Times.

[@sumayaalkhafajia9204]

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[@volumedealer2716]

Beta!

[@mynameisawesomeman]

This is total rubbish.