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You can cheat people, but not nature!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

John Barresi*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada. jbarresl@ac.dal.ca

Abstract

The psychological mechanisms implicated in psychopathy do not limit their activity to those behaviors that support a cheater strategy in social games. They result in a number of other clearly maladaptive behaviors that do not directly involve other individuals. Thus, any gains that might arise from the use of a cheater strategy in social situations are probably lost elsewhere.

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