The Dark Triad

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The appraisal of violent stimuli is dependent on the social context and the perceiver's individual characteristics. To identify the specific neural circuits involved in the perception of violent videos, forty-nine male participants were scanned with functional MRI while watching video-clips depicting Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and Capoeira as a baseline. Prior to scanning, a self-report measure of pleasure or displeasure when watching MMA was collected. Watching MMA was associated with activation of the anterior insula (AI), brainstem, ventral tegmental area (VTA), striatum, medial, and lateral prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, somatosensory cortex, and supramarginal gyrus. While this pattern of brain activation was not related to participants' reported experience of pleasure or displeasure, pleasurable ratings of MMA predicted increased functional connectivity (FC) seeded in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) (a structure known to be responsive to anticipating both positive and negative outcomes) with the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and anterior insular cortex (AIC) (regions involved in positive feelings and visceral somatic representations). Displeasure ratings of MMA were related to increased FC with regions of the prefrontal cortex and superior parietal lobule, structures implicated in cognitive control and executive attention. These data suggest that functional connectivity is an effective approach to investigate the relationship between subjective feelings of pleasure and pain of neural structures known to respond to both the anticipation of positive and negative outcomes.

Desensitization can be beneficial to your mental health, but it can also be harmful. If you become desensitized to violence or death, you may become less sensitive to the suffering of others, lose your ability to empathize, or begin to behave aggressively. 

Our brains adapt to our surroundings. And their primary function is to assist us in surviving and coping with everything.

Is it true that being addicted to true crime makes us unable to empathize in the long run?  Science appears to indicate that this is the case.

So, uh... you're all budding psychopaths.

solution: read more fiction

Recent neuroscience research suggests that you might find solutions in the library; reading literary fiction helps people develop empathy, theory of mind, and critical thinking. When we read, we hone and strengthen several different cognitive muscles, which are the foundation of our EQ.

A gene is the cause of one being negative almost all the time.

The type of music you listen to has an impact on your perception of the world.

Having positive and happy people around you can keep you happier.

Remembering a past event brings up the last time you retrieve it in your memory rather than the event itself.

The brain replays memories and creates perfect moment scenarios 70% of the time.

People who take interest in serial killers turn out to be better conversationalists.

Singing could make you feel less anxious and depressed.

Among all psychological disorders, anorexia holds the highest mortality rate of 5% to 20%.

Severe depression increases the aging process in cells, thus causing biological aging.

The fact that falling in love only takes 4 minutes is psychologically proven.

The feeling of ‘being in love’ is the brain’s chemical reaction, not the heart’s.

Having higher IQs make it harder for women to find a mate.

That last person you think of before you sleep is either the reason you are happy or in pain.

90% of people take into texting the things they could not express in person.

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I don’t know who I am. I want to be something I can never be. I try so hard every day. But in the end, I hate myself for what I’ve become . . . My head just doesn’t work right. I know I should be happy with what I have, but I hate living . . . I need help. There is one person that could help, but she won’t. I need to find someone else. I think I love her, but she could never love me. I don’t know why I try. Oh fuck. I sound so pitiful. People would laugh at this if they read it. I hate being laughed at. But they won’t laugh after they’re scraping parts of their parents, sisters, brothers, and friends from the wall of my hate. Please. Someone, help me. All I want is something small. Nothing big. I just want to be happy. . . . Oh God, I don’t want to live. Will I see it to the end? What kind of dad would I make? All humans are evil. I just want to end the world of evil. . . . If there was a God, he wouldn’t let me feel the way I do. . . . Love isn’t real, only hate remains.

His conscience is clearly visible in the passage he wrote after killing his parents but before the attack at the school the next day: