Gye Greene's Thoughts

Gye Greene's Thoughts (w/ apologies to The Smithereens and their similarly-titled album!)

Friday, November 27, 2009

Heroes and villians related

Interesting academic article that suggests that heroes and sociopaths are related.

My extension would be that it also applies to super-heroes, and villains.

Basically, that both groups are lacking in impulse control and rule-following: both break the rules, although for different ends (e.g. in 9/11, the firefighters who refused to leave the building), and both act on impulse (supposedly, ultra do-gooders can't help themselves).

Thx to Old Roommate for the link!


--GG

1 Comments:

At December 08, 2009 4:28 PM, Blogger slag said...

I liked that article.

 

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