Psychopaths.. Chapter 2

In the second chapter of this book, Kevin Dutton begins with a scenario. A woman is at her mother's funeral, meets the man of her dreams, but forgets to get his phone number. A few days later, the woman kills her sister. Apparently this test is to see if you think like a psychopath- what could have made the woman want to kill her sister? A psychopath's answer would be because she was hoping that the man would turn up at her sister's funeral, while most people would think the woman killed her sister out of jealousy.
Dutton continues by talking about personality and the history of it, like how it began in ancient Greece with Hippocrates. Hippocrates split up different emotions into a chart that is half negative and half positive, but also half energetic and half low energy. Each of the four sections is labeled either choleric, sanguine, melancholic, or phlegmatic. This is also known as Hippocrates' four temperaments. Dutton presents other charts like these for a part of the chapter.
A question Dutton asks is that what happens when personality goes wrong? There are so many different types of personality disorders, and they only affect about fourteen percent of the population.
Dutton gives a story as an example to show that anyone can have a personality disorder and be a psychopath. A man named Joe had a very high IQ and was very attractive, but still felt the need to beat a girl and rape her. Dutton adds that he actually met Joe and posed a conundrum to him- a doctor has five patients that are all desperately in need of transplants, but there is no where to get these transplants. All of a sudden, a young man comes into the doctor's office and has healthy organs that could save all five of those people. What would you do? Joe stated that it was a no brainer and he would kill that one man to save all five of those other people.
Throughout the rest of the chapter, Dutton poses more and more examples of psychopaths, but it is still unclear as to what makes a psychopath the way they are. Once again, I am not entirely sure about how this relates to the business world. I am really excited to see how Dutton relates this to business, but like I had stated in my last blog post, I think it might have something to do with not being so emotional towards other people. Someone who is very sympathetic and feels bad for people easily I feel cannot make very good business men/women (in general).