https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wicked-deeds/201801/the-differences-between-psychopaths-and-sociopaths
a. commonalities
antisocial personality disorders (dsm5)
disregard laws & social norms
fail to feel REMORSE or GUILT
tend to be violent or have aggressive behaviors
b. differences
1. sociopaths = environmental (trauma & abuse), sporadic crimes, usu jobless & uneducated, can empathize with a few people only
2. psychopaths = genetic inability to control impulse & emotions, well-planned (cool, calm, meticulous) crimes (sometimes with contingency plans), usu with job & well-educated, ~50% of serial killers; MANIPULATIVE, MIMIC emotions, others = objects of amusement; "the most dangerous of antisocial PDs"
