Psychopathic traits linked to difficulty distinguishing smells

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Psychopathy is clearly ill defined . Kinda hard to find a link to such a vague category.

Not really. It is ill defined in DSM but if you read Harvey Cleckley "the Mask of Sanity" there is a clear coherent syndrome. Basically it is amoral impulse control disorder.

It shows up on fMRI so it is probably more real than half the things in DSM.

Thanks for this info.

Link to info about MRI?

Here is a popular media source

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-neuroscien...

from 2012

So it must be wrong? I don't know if it is just me but the recentism thought police on the web these days reeks of 1984. Or is that book memoryholed too now because it wasn't published last month?

If you look you can find more recent citations of this correlation with smell. So it is not "debunked."

Nothing wrong with it; just pointing it out.

I have no idea where you come up with "debunked"; were you intending to reply to someone else?

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