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Anomalies and their Followers as Drivers of Episodic Social Upsets

While episodic social upsets driven by psychopaths and their followers are both painfully obvious and abundant to the point of distraction in the historical record, it is enlightening to place these upsets into the context of Babiak & Hare‘s psychology experiments. In these experiments, as treated further in another post, the minds in a random […]

Mind Categories as an Ancient Equilibrium Distribution

Babiak and Hare (2006) conducted psychology experiments in which the antics of what they called “hucksters” were shown to randomly-selected audiences, after which each audience member was interviewed about their impressions of the huckster. The audience members fell into approximately equal thirds in their responses, numbered herein according to the order of their mention in […]

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