--- In beyondismscience 44, pellarius wrote:
> Mark seems to be rather high on psychopathy (an
> understatement?), whereas I am rather low on psychopathy.

Do you mean *psychoticism* (Trait P)? Psychopathy is trait
criminality/fanatical-pseudosocial-zealousness, today
known as Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD).
http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/apdtable.htm
http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/antisoc.htm

As Hans Eysenck and Richard Lynn point out, psychoticism
and psychopathy are not entirely unrelated, but I think
competent personality scientists today believe that the
vast majority of high-P persons are not APDs.


> Might interactions between two low A people be more likely
> to bring out the disagreeableness in each of them?

It has long been recogized that interaction of two
personality-disordered persons will tend to bring out the
basest stereotyped behavior in both of them (for example,
look at most any trailer-park family.) However, I would
guess that Trait A is a muddled construct -- confusing
what might be termed real trait-agreeableness with
crypto-A and crypto-non-A -- and therefore theorizing
about its implications would be senseless until it becomes
an unmuddled construct. (Please don't let that stop you,
though. Maybe I am wrong about it being muddled.)


-Chris