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The dissociation between fear and aggression is evident in violent psychopaths, who are the antithesis of fearful-both physiologically and subjectively they are less reactive to pain; their amygdalae are relatively unresponsive to typical fear-evoking stimuli and are smaller than normal.34 This fits with the picture of psychopathic violence; it is not done in aroused reaction to provocation. Instead, it is purely instrumental, using others as a means to an end with emotionless, remorseless, reptilian indifference.

( Robert M. Sapolsky )
[ Behave: The Biology of Humans ]
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