- Antisocials score naturally higher on psychometric scores designed to test for hypomania.
- A recent study showed that, when recalling experiences of love, hate, anger, happiness, etc., people with ASPD will use more emotional language to describe the event than those without ASPD.
- Antisocials will use more verbs and adjectives in their speech, and are more descriptive. People with ASPD are more likely to use words such as: feel, kiss, hug, take, dream, wish, etc. when describing love. Antisocials will also use more nouns in their speech when describing negative experiences, eg. anger, quarrel, rage, hate, agreement. Psychologists believe that this is because antisocials are not emotionally invested in their speech about hate and anger, and the emotional variance showed in both these speeches must reflect a deeper ambivalence toward strong emotions. That is, psychopaths are storytellers.
- People with ASPD find it hard to hypothesise hate and do indeed automatically recognise and feel it as a negative emotion. However, when discussing hate, the antisocial will use positive words to describe their own disposition within that situation. This reflects their natural charm and inherently positive sense of self. When discussing their own competence in situations where hate was encountered, the antisocial will describe themselves as a mediator, a negotiator, a skilled communicator who effectively deescalated the situation. This shows a lack of emotional insight and an inability to learn from past mistakes.
- When people say they can “tell” who’s a sociopath/psychopath by how they talk, or people diagnose themselves with ASPD because of how emotionless and flat they believe they sound, they’re bullshitting you. People with ASPD have been found to have a richer, more expansive emotional lexicon, quite the opposite of a cold, blunted affect. An antisocial will zone in on specific feelings, emotions, experiences, and can name them all convincingly and succinctly, with a greater ability and ease than those without ASPD. However, though antisocials can beautifully and astutely describe emotions, they cannot normally correctly identify their own.
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