{"id":139608,"date":"2022-05-19T20:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T01:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/study-finds-that-psychopaths-remain-just-as-bad-or-worse-as-they-age"},"modified":"2022-05-19T20:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T01:02:54","slug":"study-finds-that-psychopaths-remain-just-as-bad-or-worse-as-they-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/study-finds-that-psychopaths-remain-just-as-bad-or-worse-as-they-age","title":{"rendered":"Study finds that psychopaths remain just as bad, or worse, as they age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-that-psychopaths-remain-just-as-bad-or-worse-as-they-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone waiting for a sociopath to grow up or calm down should give up; they will not change, a new study has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the <i>International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology<\/i>, surveyed more than 1,200 partners, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/family+members\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">family members<\/a> and friends of psychopaths\u201493% reported they were just as bad, or worse, as they got older.<\/p>\n<p>Co-author Professor Martin Sellbom, of the University of Otago\u2019s Department of Psychology, says the research focused on people with antisocial personality disorder\/psychopathy who were aged over 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone waiting for a sociopath to grow up or calm down should give up; they will not change, a new study has revealed. The research, published in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, surveyed more than 1,200 partners, family members and friends of psychopaths\u201493% reported they were just as bad, or worse, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}