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Friday, November 27, 2009

Politicians Share Personality Traits With Serial Killers

Using his law enforcement experience and data drawn from the FBI's behavioral analysis unit, Jim Kouri has collected a series of personality traits common to a couple of professions.

Kouri, who's a vice president of the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police, has assembled traits such as superficial charm, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse and manipulation of others.

These traits, Kouri points out in his analysis, are common to psychopathic serial killers.

But -- and here's the part that may spark some controversy and defensive discussion -- these traits are also common to American politicians. (Maybe you already suspected.)'

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1 comment:

  1. Charles Asp Manson28 November 2009 at 05:58

    And they wouldn't feel out of place sharing a prison sentence either, here with me in the neck of the woods of my mind.

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