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Marc Wilson: What’s the difference between psychopaths and sociopaths?

Writer Daniel Davis

New Zealand scores 79 for culture-level individualism. Australia weighs in at 90, while Japan comes in at 46 and Fiji scores a collectivist 14. Photo / Getty Images

I don’t think I’ve ever lectured about psychopathy without having someone ask if a sociopath is the same thing. The answer, it happens, is “kind of”.

The term “sociopathy” was popularised by George Partridge, an

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