{"id":236581,"date":"2026-05-05T23:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/inside-the-brains-of-800-incarcerated-men-high-psychopathy-linked-to-expanded-brain-surface-area"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:19:15","slug":"inside-the-brains-of-800-incarcerated-men-high-psychopathy-linked-to-expanded-brain-surface-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/inside-the-brains-of-800-incarcerated-men-high-psychopathy-linked-to-expanded-brain-surface-area","title":{"rendered":"Inside the brains of 800 incarcerated men: High psychopathy linked to expanded brain surface area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-the-brains-of-800-incarcerated-men-high-psychopathy-linked-to-expanded-brain-surface-area.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with high levels of psychopathic tendencies are often incapable of feeling empathy for other people. From a brain science perspective, empathy isn\u2019t a single emotion but a multi-part neural process. It involves brain systems that help us share others\u2019 feelings, understand their perspectives, and even mentally step into their experience.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger picture is, however, still blurry as we lack large-scale studies that map how different features of brain structure link to both empathy and psychopathy, especially in incarcerated populations.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S266717432600008X?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\">recent study<\/a> published in <i>Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science<\/i> investigated how personality is reflected in the brain by turning to something measurable\u2014the brain\u2019s physical structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with high levels of psychopathic tendencies are often incapable of feeling empathy for other people. From a brain science perspective, empathy isn\u2019t a single emotion but a multi-part neural process. It involves brain systems that help us share others\u2019 feelings, understand their perspectives, and even mentally step into their experience. The bigger picture is, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236581","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=236581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}