People who don't feel want to have what they observe, but don't understand it. So they develop their own reasons. Normal people get an emotional reward from human contact.

Something similar is common in victims of trauma as well. The trope is the woman with "daddy issues", which are more complex, who try to fill a void they have with sexual relationships. Instead of seeking an absent male relationship, they manipulate to get a "friendship", and are often very skilled at meticulously building this friendship, without the emotional connection that governs our behavior. They are seeking a means to an end - which may include just feeling something.

I had an acquaintance like this, who became a very scary individual as he became an older teen. I cut him out completely at 13 when I suspected he harmed a neighbor's cat.

As the author of the article stated, it doesn't make her evil. But she is dangerous, as her motivations are different her behavior is probably governed more by her executive control part of the brain, which is high labor and highly rational. "Rational" sounds great to engineers, but people make very disturbing rational decisions when they build a system of unusual assumptions.