James Fallon | The Mind of a Dictator
James Fallon speaks at Oslo Freedom Forum 2011
The Mind of a Dictator
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James Fallon begins the first session of the opening day of the 2011 Oslo Freedom Forum with a fascinating tour of a hypothetical dictator's brain. Since almost no studies have been conducted on the brain chemistry of tyrants, Fallon uses tests performed on psychopaths, who share many of the same characteristics, as a foundation for his theories. Virtually all dictators can be classified as psychopaths-they exhibit malignant narcissism, lie pathologically, and many are involved in murder. Furthermore, psychopathy can be viewed as a three-legged stool, as Fallon explains. When the presence of genetic alleles that are at high risk for aggression and violence is combined with functional brain loss and abuse in childhood, the three legs are intact and the conditions for psychopathy are met. Fallon also points out specific areas of the brain that are likely to be damaged in dictators, such as the orbital cortex and amygdala, which balance each other in a normal individual. Interestingly, our society actually encourages psychopathic traits; psychopaths are often successful in fields ranging from medicine to business. Of course, psychopaths only form a small percentage of the population, but when one rises to power the results can be disastrous. Learn more about #OsloFreedomForum:
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Extremely educational, I'm so happy this presentation was put on KZhead. Thank you so much for this, really helps me writing my essay for school.
Fastest 20 minutes of my life. I could have listened to him all day...
This gentleman is worth listening to even though he is a psychopath. I wish all Psychopaths had taking that course of Direction in their life.
There's a few like him, you can be sure of that 😊
Then psychopaths wouldn't give reason for people like Fallon to speak about.
I think you are just living in a vacuum.
You absolutely a DELIRANT IGNORANT! SO LET'S GLAMORIZE PSYCHOPATH!?
So is psychopath Dr. David Wood.
At 16:20, when he's talking about the insula and mirroring, he explains that it's empathy and like if he sees you're in pain, he will feel pain for you. But, he has a little microexpression there just as he turns back to the images behind him where he opens his eyes and almost seems to smirk, roll his eyes. I don't think he knows he does that. I found it interesting.
It's possible that he would realize this upon viewing this video. He's admitted in the past that he has many of the traits on Hare's psychopath checklist, but that he has decided to use his psychopathic traits as a research tool so he can alert society at large to the dangers of psychopaths.
He's most likely making a little joke of endearment with the audience, as everyone there probably knows he is very open about having some of these characteristics. I listen to HG Tudor on youtube, a narcissist helping others understand narcissism, and he quite frequently makes jokes to endear himself to the audience.
I love this guy!
YES SLAVES TRASHY FEMALES love PSYCHOPATHS.
Hi Dr James Fallon, thank you for your wonderful humor and brilliance and sharing everything with the world. Really wish I could learn from you how to have a scan of my own brain; I come from a big family so there is every walk of life and I love them all but I can’t help but notice so much and it blows my mind that no one else in my family goes sees the obvious. I guess if the harpoon isn’t aimed at one’s own head who really gives a shit right? I’m not even going to read your other comments because it’s amazing to me how nobody’s curious about their own brain, just an opinion on yours. Please please let me know if there’s any way to get a pet scan by you? Bless you and your family! 🧜♀️🦋
I see my president Paul Biya of Cameroon finally appearing among the top ten of something "international".
I believe the number is much higher and nearly all people or most of them have a few points at this scale.
Just like many critical positions (Submariners, Astronauts and others) a Complete Psychoanalysis of every to be Congressman, Senator, President, any Judge from District to Supreme Court, CEO's of companies greater than 10,000 employees and more, should be done. Before they take position of their new title. Most of the ones we have in those positions now are totally NOT of the mental disposition we want.
um acting highly rationally does not require you to be a psychopath if you learn how to detect and moderate your emotions .. usually this is pretty instinctive if you are doing a problem solving activity to reach a greater end that has relevance to you (eg emergencies) or have a propensity to value (e.g reaching stability, discovering new things) . that greater end doesn't have to be self involved or out of vanity or competition .. competition and individuation are not the only way to innovate nor are they the only thing that motivates people.
10:38 they used kim jong from Team America. lol
All the more reason to be compassionate to people even if they’ve done terrible things.
I was emotionally and mentally abused by two people and they were abandoned as children...So child abandonment should be considered as a crime... I don't deserve trauma definitely...
@@lilac624ofcourse you don't bro. Yes it should be a crime but just for a second thinking about the misery of those who had to leave their child, we cab say yes they were VERY WRONG but were also going through something. 🫂❤
The eyes are the window to the (d3mon filled) soul ... as it is written. Screenshots and pictures often show us what OUR eyes miss! Eyes that appear normal, suddenlt are badly unsynced. Also, retinal changes - for an instant at a time, randomly. Stress and anxiety appear to escalate the reflex body motions/symptoms.
I have a question...can a simple man of little means stop a dictator...my bosss
The problem is you encounter a good psycho versus a bad psycho. How can one initially tell the difference? Otherwise, one should take the route of caution.
@DennisnLuu: Good Point! I am German, but I am not a researcher. But I live near Heidelberg, one of the research centers of Germany on Genetics and Epigenetics ... on occasion I WILL ask THEM. THX
With the rise of autocrats worldwide, more than ever, there needs to be mental evaluations put in place for anyone running for office. The majority of the world population wants to live a peaceful and fulfilled life. Only a small percentage of the population with mental disorders put all the rest of the population (billions) at risk. If we want a just and fair society we, the people, cannot afford individuals with psychopathic profiles running the world.
This is all very intelligent, we all have the capability of being a dictator🙂
No, I don't think we do.
@@narek323 you would only know if you became one
@@bo1900695 We don't all have the capability to become a dictator. Where is your evidence? You need to have a talent in persuasion and manipulative methods to succeed. Not everyone is a psychopath.
@@narek323 yes but everyone can be. The man sitting in a jail cell and the man sitting in the White House are not 2 different minds but different arrangement of the mind. One rearranged his mind to be a prisoner one the president.
Your crazy
This is so interesting yet I couldn’t help but feel how much we dont know: Psychology of US Soldiers Democratically appointed leaders (trump et Al) Herd mentality into psychopathology
@Jamesfallon are you and Saul Rubinek relatives?
The reason the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA harbors psychopaths: Society asks the successful psychopaths to do the dirty work for us, and not just the dirty but the good work. For example, you don't want your neurosurgeon to be empathetic and caring emotionally when working on you. You want them to be cold machines that don't care...society almost demands that we have psychopaths...because their traits, sometimes, seem to be very useful to a society...so society almost asks for it
i wonder why he got so anxious at the end.
***** psychopaths aren't really bothered by them.
MetrazolElectricity boredom doesn't cause them great unease, nothing does. they just have weak controls so they just go for it when they're slightly bored. and most of the literature points to a negative correlation between anxiety and psychopathy. Panic attacks and OCD are definetely not comorbid with psychopathy. psychopaths don't get anxious when ''the party ends'' they just go looking for the next one. personally, I don't think the guy is a psychopath, he's just trying to sell books. I mean those brain scans aren't diagnostic and he said he was scored at about 15 on the pcl-r which is higher than average but still way below the cut-off point.
MetrazolElectricity low arousal theory refers to people with aspd and adhd not necessarily psychopaths and it's quite outdated. The problem with psychopaths is that most of them choose not to inhibit their impulses which leads to self-destruction, inprisonment and so on. they also have really poor emotional learning and are bad at modifying their behaviours when faced with punishment, to which they don't respond as normal people do. and since they can't change their behaviour and they don't even realise their mistakes and yet they are continiously being punished they become frusturated which explains their elevated levels of reactive aggression apart from the elevated levels of instrumental aggression which is due to the distinct lack of empathy. ted bundy managed to escape twice because he had the opportunity to do it - law enforcement flaws, not because the great deal of pain associated with being bored stimulated him enough to find intricate ways to escape. ofcourse a psychopath would want to leave prison, infact most people in there would. as it is for most psychopaths bundy probably didn't realise his mistake, he was confident he would be found not guilty. ''Being in a cell alone staring at a blank wall'' is not quite what prison is like. as for patrick bateman, he is a fictional character you can't really know, i mean you could debate whether it was all in his head and so on even though the author has hinted that it was real.although samuel leistedt who has a ph.d in phorensic psychiatry assessed the movie bateman as a primary psychopath. as for book bateman he's probably not a psychopath even though he does engage in some behaviours quote typical of psychopaths.
AndroidPolitician yes, i'm well aware of the response modulation hypothesis. however, that doesn't really explain it. why wasn't he focused on goal at hand: finishing the presentation?
AndroidPolitician Fallon is not a psychopath, yes. I'm of the opinion that the real psychopaths or so called "primary" are completely devoid of neuroticism. This is the opinion of dr. Hare himself who based it off the Cleckley and Lykken among others, who've studied psychopathy. The ones that do present with high levels of anxiety simply aren't psychopaths even though they're behaviour partially mimics psychopathy. They tend to have different psychological problems. A primary psychopath has certain cognitive, psychological, emotional, and neurophysiological differences that separate them from the others.
I find it funny that at 9:50 he says he was "very lucking to be born in a country (USA) where we're completely protected from all this (dictators)" 😁
From my experience male psychopaths are misogynists. I am curious as to the genesis of this hate? On some level, do they blame the mother for the circumstance?
you always forget that pscyholgosits are mortla ifnsj as well.
If you showed that list at 4:07 to people today without the red title or any other context, many would soon think of one particular man.
I know. Now that he’s out of office, I wish they’d address that.
You cannot be sued for slander. If possible I would like to have the surgeon tested for psychopathy. It's a real easy and accurate test via the MRI. Btw, you can select you surgeon based on whether he colors his nails. There's no law prohibiting you from selecting your surgeon any way you want.
When it comes to a surgery planned 3 months ahead perhaps but good luck sending the surgeon to get a brain scan when you are bleeding and in a dire need of
Treatment
Intesting，that map is similar as IQ distribution.
Words like "this is normal" "this is defective" I take exception to. Who has any right to decide for me what my brain should work like? The brain is the most personal possession I or you possess. We should not be handing society a right to dictate the way our brains should be, that is tantamount to letting them dictate how to think.
I think you're being a bit loose with the word "normal." It is normal, as in commonly found and genetically expected, for humans to be born with two arms and two legs. It is abnormal, or defective, to be born with more or less appendages. There's no judgment placed in that statement, as it is just a statement of fact. It's a scientific, and not a philosophic approach. He wasn't, and isn't, saying those people are abnormal, so they are are bad or "wrong"...he even admitted that society readily tasks people that possibly have these defects to help society function. BUT...It is telling that people we DO find bad, or wrong, also share these defects. It's merely something to be aware of. To put another way: All cats are mammals, but not all mammals are cats...All psychopaths have these defects, but not all people with these defects end up psychopathic. Does that help?
Fucking pc flakes. Normal is the NORM. It's a scientific term. Stop being offended by everything. Who has the right lmfao, sorry bud, if your born with 3 legs you aren't normal. If your brain doesn''t function like the 99 in 100 people, you're not normal. This dude is borderline psychopatic, and he doesn't have a problem with saying he isn''t normal, stop being so offended on behalf of people who don't even give a fuck
society does not dictate you how to think. It just puts limits on how you act. And it looks for reasons for your actions in your brain. When there are abnormalities in your behavior that are explainable by deviances in your brain, society calls your brain not normal.
The brain and the genes combine in far more complex ways than every imagined. Therefore, can it be suggested that a failed damaged society such as is common place in the Middle East will inherit chaos and barbarism for generations. Can this explain why every community there seems incapable of solving conflicts.
You don't have to be a psychopath to adopt a psychopathic ideology. So the answer is yes, but far worse.
That's some ahistorical and unscientific shit...
"Since almost no studies have been conducted on the brain chemistry of tyrants, " Right because tyrants are us and we don't do experiments on us, right, fella.
What?
"idi amin was not that quick" and still become head of state 🙄
Perhaps good memories lead to depression.
How so?
@judas you aren't taking into consideration psychopaths are very egotistical especial
I take offense to the notion that we need psychopaths. I want to so business with non-psychopaths, in terms of investments, etc. Psychopath affect society in a negative way, and we need them out of the way. We need to put responsible people in their place. We don't need wars, fraud, lies, deception, etc.
Frank Herbert said that power doesn't corrupt people, it's that malignant are naturally drawn to power. Even if we magically put "good" people in charge, by our own nature, a more ruthless "predator" will naturally take place and will stay there because they will attract more of it's kind, giving favors to sympathizers and instilling fear for the other side. We are just animals in the end, I believe the game of power will stay ruthless to the end of our species.
@@DystopiaWithoutNeons if we are aware and can have policies against psychopathic behavior psychopaths can be avoided, just like in personal life. Hard to do but not impossible
@@MiteshDamania If only
@kelloggsflakes2286 Study chimpanzee society, hierarchy, etc. They are super political and thr pushy a-hole always ends up on top
...stupid enter key...especially surrounding something they excel at, not all psychopaths desire killing, but all are obsessed as never being seen as wrong.
crassenti crassenti very true yes I would agree that psychopaths are obsessed with never being seen as wrong. And they're very egotistical as you said, nice observations.
there was no father figure in the picture and his mother had problems with including drugs. There was absolutely no adult in his world who cared about him. He did not have the safe home environment that all children need. He totally had simply a broken soul looking for some fixed point.
Erdogan is the latest..but sadly not the last
lol
How might this apply to Jסе_Bוdеn??? 🤔
It applies to Trumpolini for sure
Probably not at all
I don't want my surgeon to be a psychopath. And I don't want my CEO to be a psychopath either. I will settle for a lower return that's fair to anyone and caused to harm to anyone.
Did you know the guy who gave the talk is a psychopath, you are so foolish
@@kevinvrena9533 no psychopaths allowed!!
@@MiteshDamania 9 years later but u responded 😂
@@robinvids2628 it's been that long huh? Wow. 🤔
@@MiteshDamania the world is run and created by Psychopaths 💁♀️
Which dictator, aside from Hitler was asexual?
I can put Donald on this dictator list with high confidence. This topic is also written in the book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump."
Keep it down son. Your ignorance is bliss. But it doesn't have to be. It's your choice. Just admit how stupid you are and live on. "Donald" aka Mr President Trump that you fckn assholes keep dissing cares about your dumb asses. Enjoy that money he gave your ass. NEVER bite the hand that feeds you. You Ungrateful bastard!
I don't like Trump but if he truly is a dictator and you sincerely believe it, you wouldn't have posted your comment for fear of getting that knock on your door at 2AM and suddenly being arrested or worse.
@@dgtwo3724 Man, have you ever heard of a "Smear campaign" Anything & Everything is used against someone. Their mad because they will now have to work, follow law, get educated, and can't sneak across the border, and face up to their wrongs created. And they run like RATS from CATS. lol
@@dgtwo3724 For sure, he's a con man. The institutions of government in the US is very strong. I believe Don the con man will tell his supporters that the November 2020 election is rigged when he loses. Then, this swine will take his case to the Supreme Court. The Court will order to him step down, but it's up to the military to escort him out of the White House. He's already telling William Barr to interfere with the criminal investigations of his associates.
@@snowman374th Yes, the media is liberal and they’re sometimes unfair to him, but that doesn’t make him honest or mean that EVERYTHING they say about him is untrue. That’s the genius behind his manipulation. He KNOWS that the media is sometimes dishonest about him and he uses that to manipulate people into thinking that they’re ALWAYS dishonest about him. That way, when they happen to be telling the truth, people won’t believe them. Two things can be true at once. The media can be liberal and dishonest about Donald Trump AND Donald Trump can be nearly as bad as they say. I get sick of the people who think BECAUSE he gets smeared, he must be a good guy. As if people can’t lie and exaggerate about people who are actually bad. Life is full of nuance, not absolutes.
BABANGIDA IS NIGERIA NOT ZAIRE..... but its cool they pushhed him from us though
Judge people on what they do, not what their brain looks like.
if you listened well, that is exactly what he says......
4:13 Just about all American's mentalities.. I blame Vaccination's & Flue shots & Fluoride & Beer.
All mentioned are damaging to the brain for sure.
please...I need a job...
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Send this to joe rogan now that we have Trump in the White House
I'm serious,.,,,
and that is why religion exists my friends, mind manipulation at its fines.
Bruh
@@ashaikhyashukhualashaikh yes
His neuroscience is so oversimplified and sensationalized that it is hard to relate to what he is saying other than the fact that the environment plays a huge part of the result of the kind of adult we become! So what's new! He overdramatizes the connection between having a risk-prone temperament, having been spoiled, and being a psychopath. You could say jerk or bombastic or overly self-centered, self-involved human being, but so was Picasso. Just because your amygdala does not light up in an fMRI does not mean it is not engaged as the threshold for detection by that device requires high levels of engagement. And then there is the PFC which can dampen the amygdala; all work by LeDoux that is well established. What idiot-psychiatrists thought it was a good idea to tell this narcissist that he is some borderline psychopath to give him a platform in his old age for talking and talking and talking about himself? What this tells you is that it is post-genetic expression that matters a great deal more in terms of the encoded operational strategies that an individual engages in order to obtain optimal outcomes which are rewarded and that those innate influences get tuned by one's experience! Using the overly dramatic "psychopath" term is a wonderfully effective way to sensationalize traits that are well distributed in society to sell his book and monetize incompletely understood research results from small sample sizes.
Just out of curiosity, what is your professional background in this area?
@@maryannebrown2385 Modeling human brain / behavior mechanisms. Many individuals have a potential for becoming a psychopath, but that ignores the fact that our brains are designed to model our experience and that process likely has more influence in what we become if we have been consistently rewarded for our good behavior and our constructive engagement with the world. So to say we have the brain of a psychopath is simply not to appreciate that if you scanned a great deal of ambitious, hard working, aggressive people who are contributing to society, they would have many of the same features. The issue with this guy overstating his case and overdramatizing the "dictator" label is that his study has such a small sample size. No one is going around scanning successful executives for signs of sociopathic brains! People only scan those with abnormal behavior! This guy scans himself and then makes a career expounding the wrong message for profit!
He is a psychopath as what brain scans indicated. Not borderline According to Dr. Grande, a clinical psychologist, psychopaths are narcissist by default. So dont be surprised if a psychopaths focus on themselves & highlights what they know etc. It is all about them lol
Hes a conman.
I of course he is he is a psychopath 😉. What I have doubts with is that he says he doesn’t care what people think (as he explains in other talks) but yet his voice starts to quaver and hands start to shake. This suggests to me you care. So conman? Maybe 🤔
Donald Trump fits the bill. Now it all makes sense.