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Etiology of antisocial personality disorder: benefits for society from an evolutionary standpoint.

Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2005

Miric Dragoslav, Hallet-Mathieu Anne-Marie, Amar Gilles

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As human society is mainly cooperative, it is not clear how antisocial personality disorder (APD) persists. The current explanation is that sociopaths are cheaters who maximize their fitness by taking advantages from others. Although this argument is valid, we show here that society also benefits from APD. We propose that the old phylogeny of punishment, the fact of being a full member of society, the frequency...

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PMID: 16006050
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.05.027

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