Psychopath vs Sociopath

Psychopath

a person having an egocentric and antisocial personality marked by a lack of remorse for one’s actions, an absence of empathy for others, and often criminal tendencies

Sociopath

a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior.

Doesn’t care about people but pretends to

  • Only cares when its an obstacle 

Doesn’t care about people and doesn’t pretend to

  • Does care if you wronged them

Calm and collected

  • Cold hearted behavior
  • Calculated

Hot headed

  • often aggressive outbursts
  • irresponsible and reckless behavior
  • Take unneeded risks
Lack of remorse, guilt and empathyLack of remorse. Some guilt and empathy can be present.

Little to no emotions

  • But fake emotions to fit in
Some emotions, mostly in short bursts (especially rage).
Fakes relationships (not genuine)

Hard to maintain a relationship

  • Often does have an obsessive relationship towards one person (ore a select few people)
Tend to  be successful

Easily unsuccessful

  • Hard to maintain a job or family
Hard to know other peoples feelingsHard to know other peoples feelings
No right or wrong

Know right from wrong, but do it anyway

  • rationalize and shift the blame onto others
Fake a ‘normal life’Have a rather hectic life

narcissistic

  • Only care about themselves

narcissistic

  • but some want to be recognized by some people

Pretend and fake following the law

  • dont accept responsibility
Lack of respect for the law and rules
Dishonest (both small and big things)Dishonest

Manipulate and take advantage of others

  • they are great into mimicking vibes of any situation, good setup for manipulation
Manipulate to get what they want

Can be mentally abusive

  • they can see what ticks people and use that against them

Can be mentally abusive

  • gaslighting, blame shifting,
Easily BoredEasily bored
Have sex oftenLack of interest in sex
Condition from birthCondition brought on by life experience
Have long-term plan and fight to accomplish themTrouble planning life
Retreat when they are loosingFight loosing battles
Superiority complex? 

 

 

A psychopath is like somebody that wears a mask all the time.
A sociopath doesnt have much of a mask and often has more touble in society because of it

Definitions

Remorse

a feeling of sadness and being sorry for something you have done
– Cambridge Dictionary

Guilt

a feeling of worry or unhappiness that you have because you have done something wrong, such as causing harm to another person
– Cambridge Dictionary

Empathy

the ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person’s situation
– Cambridge Dictionary

Famous psychopaths / sociopaths in fiction

Psychopath

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Sociopath

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