Evil Genes
by OAKLEY, BARBARA PHDFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-10-31
Publisher(s): Prometheus Books
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Summary
Takes readers inside the head of the kinds of malevolent people you know all too well, but could never understand. Starting with psychology as a frame of reference, it uses cutting-edge images of the working brain to provide startling support for the idea that 'evil' people act the way they do mainly as the result of a dysfunction. It is a tour de force of popular science writing that brilliantly melds scientific research with intriguing family history and puts both a human and a scientific face to evil.
Author Biography
Barbara Oakley is an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 15 |
| Preface | p. 19 |
| Introduction | p. 23 |
| In search of Machiavelli | p. 39 |
| Psychopathy | p. 49 |
| Evil genes | p. 59 |
| Using medical imaging to understand psychopaths | p. 89 |
| Insights from my sister's love letters | p. 109 |
| The connection between Machiavellianism and personality disorders | p. 131 |
| Slobodan Milosevic : the butcher of the Balkans | p. 151 |
| Lenses, frames, and how broken brains work | p. 173 |
| The perfect "borderpath" : Chairman Mao | p. 211 |
| Evolution and Machiavellianism | p. 253 |
| Shades of gray | p. 285 |
| The sun also shines on the wicked | p. 323 |
| For pondering | p. 345 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 349 |
| Text credits | p. 353 |
| Illustration credits | p. 355 |
| Endnotes | p. 359 |
| Glossary | p. 401 |
| Index | p. 417 |
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