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6 billion of us and they found two murders in the same family. Wow.
There was some Horizon program on where they stated extreme personality traits do run in families.
So if one person in your family is a serious criminal then others are likely to be even if you aren't that closely related or brought up in the same envirnoment.
However whether these extreme personality traits are expressed in an equally destructive way or not depends on how bad your up bringing was.
"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR
There was some Horizon program on where they stated extreme personality traits do run in families.
I've heard such claims and while they don't seem unreasonable, I understood this is more a theory than a statable fact, given that they still can't (???) decide quite how sexuality and genetics are linked.
And 2 murderers in a family could easily just be coincidence anyway.
I've heard such claims and while they don't seem unreasonable, I understood this is more a theory than a statable fact, given that they still can't (???) decide quite how sexuality and genetics are linked.
And 2 murderers in a family could easily just be coincidence anyway.
There are differences in brain scans (in psychopaths). Think it's the frontal lobes. The horizon show mentioned had an interesting study with some neuroscientist who had looked at a load of brain scans that also included staff members, then realised one of the "psychopaths" was him. He had a trail of murderers in his family.
He said he'd had the perfect childhood that to a certain extent had negated the possible effects. But his wife said he was odd and his son said he was scary (though only the odd moment, but I suppose scary is subjective). I can't remember if it was that show or on the radio 4 broadcast he did where he said that if it was a choice between going to a party or an aunt's funeral he'd gladly go the party and he wouldn't see anything wrong in that. He seemed a nice affable guy generally.
I think you are correct though, it's hard to prove a lot of the theories. I did a psych degree. The ones I find interesting are the cases above, they seem to buck the trend. As well as those who've had horrific backgrounds and do well.
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