Kevin Dutton

Kevin Dutton

Research Psychologist, University of Oxford

Dr. Kevin Dutton is the author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success. Dutton is a research psychologist at the Calleva Research Centre for Evolution and Human Science, Magdalen College, University of Oxford.

 

2 min
James Bond is probably one of the most nailed down, functional, psychopaths that there is.
Would you kill a baby if you knew he would grow up to be Hitler? Psychologist and author Kevin Dutton explores the mindset of psychopaths as a window into this fascinating ethical question. 
You try and stare a baby out on the metro and you’re on a loser pal. 
Would you kill a baby and save millions of lives further on down the line in history? 
One of the benefits of being a psychopath is you are not depressed and you are not anxious.
The more people are attending to threat-related stimuli, the more anxious they get. 
3 min
If you’re worried about the fact that you’re in a relationship with a psychopath, what can you do about that? What might be some certain things to look out for?