Carolyn
author's first adult memories of, 119–20
early years, 110–14, 124–27
final years, 323–25, 331
final years—the conclusion, 340–43
last words, 23, 107, 343
love letters, 120–22, 127–29
missing decade, 117–19
personality-related traits and characteristics
alcoholism, 140–42, 340, 341–43
anorexia, 140–42, 340
bipolar personality disorder, 142n
borderline personality disorder, 142, 340
charisma, 128
intelligence, 128
shame, feelings of, 140
photographs of, 117, 118, 143, 324, 340, 342
polio and her attentional network, 114–16, 326–27, 340
stealing mother's boyfriend, 26–27
Carter, Jimmy, duped by Ceausescu, Arafat, Kim Il Sung, and other Machiavellians, 316
Caspi, Avshalom, childhood maltreatment and MAO-A, 80–81
Castro, Fidel
hypomanic qualities, 314
remarkable memory, 312
Catherine the Great, enlightened despot, 286
Catholic Church
compared with sinister aspects of other groups, 30
pedophilia, 35, 107, 332
caudate
activated—and we feel satisfaction—when we punish cheaters, 260
cooperation and trust, 20
Ceausescu, Nicolae (Romanian dictator)
brief overview compared to other dictators, 28
in context with other poorly schooled leaders, 308
hypomanic qualities, 314
malevolent emotional contagion seen in ordinary Romanians, 270–71
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 40
Centurion Ministries and Jim McCloskey, 188
cerebral cortex
emotion and, 181–82, 186
illustration of, 93
illustration of four key components of, 181
in-depth discussion of various components of, 179–82
CFO Magazine: names Enron's CFO Andrew Fastow CFO of the Year, 295
Chang, Jung (Mao biographer), 218–19, 239–40
chameleon-like behavior. See identity disturbance, chameleon-like behavior
charisma
as advantage for Machiavellians, 282, 297
Carolyn's, 128
of Enron's CEO, Jeffrey Skilling, 296
powerful men attracted to charisma of troubled, sometimes deeply sinister women, 277
of Princess Diana, 277, 391n54
role of memory in charm and, 312–13
of Texas Southern University's corrupt president, Priscilla Slade, 280
“cheaters”
caudate activated (and we feel satisfaction) when we punish, 260
does the percentage of “cheaters” influence culture, 270–71
have led to evolutionary arms race, 258
as Machiavellians, 255–56
Cheng, Nien, suffering during Cultural Revolution, 215–16
Chhang, Youk, haunted by memories of heckling couple being buried alive, 303n
“chicken,” game of, exemplifies benefit of seemingly irrational emotional strategies, 260–61
child abuse
interference with development of executive control can cause subclinical to descend into clinical borderline, 202
in Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Abraham Lincoln, 219, 219n
MAO-A alleles and, 54, 81–82
psychosocial versus neurobiological “push,” 95
Chinese speakers versus English speakers, neurological differences of, 175–76
Chirot, Daniel, competition for power rarely won by faint of heart, 314
Chomsky, Noam, 174–75
Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai, premier of China), 239
Christie, Richard, 40–48, 132, 133, 231, 268, 303n
chromosomes
explanation and illustration of human, 60, 61
illustration of illnesses associated with chromosome seventeen, 64
Churchill, Randolph, talentless, egotistical son of Winston, 293n
Churchill, Winston
alcoholism and depression, 307
benefits of his impassioned “emote control,” 188, 293
“I am so conceited…” [the point being, he really was], 293, 293n
intelligence, 293
mental flexibility, 301, 314
remarkable memory, 313
Stalin's ability to fool, 29–30
cingulate cortex
illustration, 73
MAO-A alleles and decreased reaction in, 80–81
serotonin transporters’ influence on signal to amygdala, 74–75
cingulate gyrus, MAO-A alleles can produce smaller, 80
Cixi, Empress, 27
Clark, Wesley, General, NATO commander, 171
clinically significant
inherent flaw in DSM-IV use of concept, 375–76n32
in relation to borderline personality disorder, 162–63
Clinton, Bill
excellent memory, 313
gullibility regarding Saddam Hussein, 316–17
temper, 300
clock gene, 233
Cluster A, B, and C personality disorders
general description, 133–34
MAO-A and Cluster B personality disorders, 80
Cochran, Gregory
argues against historical theory that only social forces matter, 267
Ashkenazi genetic mutations and intelligence, 87
cognitive dissonance, neuroimaging study reveals processes underlying, 190
cognitive dysfunction
anorexia and, 142n
borderline personality disorder
anterior cingulate cortex dysfunction and inability to focus on something undesirable, 182
as dimensional trait of, 164
as heritable trait in, 85
irrationality under effect of strong emotions, 204
overview related to neuroscience results, 205–206
paranoid thinking (a form of cognitive dysfunction) as trait to define personality disorder used by DSM-IV, 164
delusional thinking
outright, 165, 302–307
in schizophrenia and schizotypal personality disorder, 135, 227
effect of stress on, 202
“end justifies the means” behavior, 204
irrationality provides successful strategy for manipulation and control, 260–61
in Machiavellians, 209
in Machiavellians as part of precise definition used in this book, 281
neuroscience behind
anterior cingulate cortex role in focus and attention, 182
cognitive dissonance, neuroimaging study reveals processes underlying, 190
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and, 181–82, 203
lack of common sense in those with damage to dorsolateral and ventromedial areas, 203
prefrontal cortex dysfunction and, 180
role in irrationally inflexible behavior, 204
ventromedial cortex and, 182, 203
paranoia (a form of cognitive dysfunction)
provides for success in dangerous social structures, 250
seen in individuals with subclinical symptoms of borderline personality disorder, 201
in people
Diana, Princess, 277
general discussion of good and bad effects, with different examples, 300–307, 306n–307n, 314–15
Lay, Ken, Chairman of Enron, 296–98
Mao. See under Mao, Chairman, personality traits and disorders
Milosevic. See under Milosevic, Slobodan, borderline-like and psychopathic traits
Skilling, Jeffrey, Enron CEO, 295–98
possibility of intervention to help those with, 329
somatic-marker hypothesis, 203
suicide and, 166
cognitive therapy, resulting ch
anges in brain chemistry, 68
Coleman, Roger, smooth ability to lie about rape and murder, 188–89
Collier, Norma, on Martha Stewart: “She's a sociopath…,” 293
Commodus, putative son of Marcus Aurelius, 275
common sense
lack of in those with damage to dorsolateral and ventromedial areas, 203
and Wiener's theories of Jewish family structure, 86
communism. See under politics
compassion. See empathy
“Complicity with Evil” (Adam LeBor), describes corruption at the United Nations, 332
COMT (catechol-O-methyltransferase) “warrior or worrier” gene
general effects of, 78–80
shades of intellect-emotion trade-off in Wiener's analysis of Jewish family structure, 86
conduct disorder in children, 102
confirmation bias. See also projection bias
explanation of, 179
neuroimaging study reveals processes underlying, 190
in Soviet perspectives about communism versus capitalism, 179
Conquest, Robert, and The Great Terror (or, I Told You So, You Fucking Fools), 28n
conscience
ability of Machiavellians to seduce others into ignoring their, 281
fear plays role in development of, 93, 95
imaging studies related to, 100–102
of a narcissist is flexible, dominated by self-interest, 247
neurological apparatus related to conscience played role in development of altruism, 256
psychopaths lack, 29n, 93, 95
conspiracy theorists and delusional thinking, 302, 306n–307n
control, desire for. See also manipulation
as coping characteristic in borderline personality disorder, 137, 140, 145
historical examples of good and bad aspects of people with desire for control, 298–99, 308–10
obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and, 135
power, aristocracy, and wealth as magnets for, 277, 337–38
social dominance and neurotransmitter levels: self-medication, those with desire for, 238
Cooke, David, studies of psychopathy
across cultures, 265–66
dimensional description, 167
cooperation
caudate, 20
evolutionary aspect, 259–60
copy number variants, 63
“corporate” psychopaths, 106–107, 108
corpus callosum
illustration of, 93
psychopaths’ differences in, 92
corruption
in democracies compared to corruption under dictators, 251
in the Ottoman empire, 271–72, 274
rise of Machiavellians means others redirect themselves toward less corrupt systems, which in turn become corrupt as Machiavellians are attracted to new nexus of power, 336–37
in the Roman empire, 275–76, 276n
at Texas Southern University, 278–80
at the United Nations, as described in Adam LeBor's “Complicity with Evil,” 332
Cosmides, Leda, 175, 388n12
countertransference, 37
credulousness. See naivete
Crick, Francis: free will and the anterior cingulate cortex, 328
Crnobrnja, Mihailo, 155
Cromwell, Oliver, could not resist temptation to stay in power, 298
cultural relativism. See under politics
Cultural Revolution, 215–16, 235, 237, 239, 249
culture and its relation to morality and Machiavellians. See also emotional contagion
basic features of morality appear to be hard-wired—not product of culture, 322
can culture create Machiavellians—or Machiavellians create culture?, 264–65, 268–71
difference between the terms “sociopath” and “psychopath,” 51
Enron's mandated top-down culture of greed, 294
“feel good” politics, 187–92
framing lenses, 174–79
“human cultural and behavioral diversity can be understood in the same way as biological diversity” (David Sloan Wilson), 16
in the Ottoman empire, 271–72, 274
“projection bias”: the danger of assuming those from other cultures think as we do, 378n8
psychopathy across cultures, 265–66
in the Roman empire, 274–76, 276n
D4DR and novelty seeking, extroversion, 82
DARPP-32, intelligence and schizophrenia, 82–83
Darwin, Charles, illustrates advantages of narcissism, 288–89, 292
death penalty, 188, 191
De Beauvoir, Simone, as Mao's dupe, 241
Debunking 9/11 Myths (David Dunbar and Brad Reagan), 302
deceitfulness. See also gaslighting; lying; manipulation
antisocial personality disorder and, 50, 135
as dimensional trait of psychopathy, 167
problem of detecting deceitful Machiavellians, 332–39
as strategy in “tit for tat,” 258
defense, psychological: neuroimaging study reveals processes underlying, 190
defense mechanisms, 37
De Forest, Lee, hijacked Edwin Armstrong's invention of FM radio, 291
De Gaulle, Charles (president of France), temper and remarkable memory of, 313
deinstitutionalization and resultant increased prison populations, 330
delusional thinking. See under cognitive dysfunction
democracy. See politics, capitalism
Democratic party. See also politics
in relation to neuroimaging study of political partisanship, 189–90
Deng Xiaoping (leader of China), 248, 309n
denial. See gaslighting; lying; manipulation
dependent personality disorder, defined, 136
depersonalization, a trait of schizotypal personality disorder, 135
depression
borderline personality disorder and, 140, 149
genetic effects
BDNF alleles, 77–78
chromosome 2 region, 160
DARPP-32, 82–83
MAO-A, 80–81
serotonin transporters, 73–75
stress in relation to, 66
neural characteristics
limbic system dysfunction in borderlines, 193–95
negative moods generated by right hemisphere, 92
theta rhythms, 148
ventromedial cortex, inactive in depressed people who find no meaning in what they do, 182
in people
Lincoln, Abraham, 219n
Mao, 224, 229–32
Milosevic, 161
Wiener, Norbert, 86
polio and, 116
Derby, Lord, on Winston Churchill: “He is absolutely untrustworthy…,” 285
despotism, as discussed by researcher Laura Betzig, 268–70
Despotism and Differential Reproduction (Laura Betzig), 268
despots. See dictators
devaluation and idealization, alternating between. See relationships, unstable personal, “splitting”
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. See DSM-IV
dialectical materialism, 231n
dialectic-behavioral therapy to help borderlines (developed by Marsha Linehan), 329
Diana, Princess
attraction toward aristocracy, 35
mood swings, 277
Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles: Diana's bulimia; eating, mood disorders in Diana's family, 391n54
Diana Chronicles, The (Tina Brown), 391n54
DiCaprio, Leonardo, mimicking abilities, 104n
dictators. See also individual dictators by name
ability to take advantage of naivete and narcissism of others, 315–17, 321
brief comparative overview, 28–30, 285–86, 321–22
delusions of, 304–305
desire for control, 298, 308–309
with dictators, one often has to chose which s
on of a bitch to support, 339
dysfunctional traits used as manipulative tools by, 315
emergenic qualities, 314–15
Glad, Betty: article “Why Tyrants Go Too Far,” 34
inflexibility of, 301–302
intelligence, memory, hypomania of, 310–14
narcissism of, 287, 297–98
personality in relation to ideology of, 307–308
neuroscience, not mentioned in relation to, 34
temper of, 299–300
would-be dictators always poised at the wings, ready to take power, 332–35
Dilas, Milovan, “The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past,” 211
dimensional approach to
borderline personality disorder, 163–64, 166
personality disorders in general, 131–32
Dingshan, home of Yixing teapots, 212
Discourses, The (Niccolo Machiavelli), 46
dissociative symptoms, as DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder, 158
distrust. See also under cognitive dysfunction paranoia; paranoid ideation
Milosevic's, 157–59
as a trait of paranoid personality disorder, 134
as a trait of schizotypal personality disorder, 135
Ditka, “Iron” Mike, temper of, 300
Djindjic, Zoran, mayor of Belgrade, 165
DNA
explanation of, 61–62, 64
in Roger Coleman death penalty case, 188
so-called junk, 62, 65, 263
Doder, Dusko (Milosevic biographer), 154, 158
dopamine
COMT gene and relation to intelligence, 78–80
in context with other neurotransmitters, reward system, and movement, 184
and delusional thinking, 304
imbalance in borderlines, 78–80
reticular activating system, poliovirus, attention, and, 114–16
social dominance and neurotransmitter levels, 238
ventral tegmental area role in production of, 196
Dorpat, Theodore (Gaslighting…), 147
dorsal raphe nucleus: role in production of serotonin, 196
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
antisocial behavior produced by damage to, 94
dysfunction and inability to learn from punishment, 94
function of and dysfunction in, 181–82
illustrations, 94, 101, 181
linkage with limbic (emotional) systems, 186
N-acetylaspartate compounds found in borderlines, 205
role in
cognitive-perceptual impairment in borderlines, 203–207
commonsense decision making, 203
rational cognition, 186
Dreelin, Elizabeth, borderline behavior in a hospital setting, 143–44
Drudge Report, The, role in reporting on Machiavellians, 251, 338
drug addiction. See under addictive behavior
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