Study reveals that children who don’t feel the need to laugh when they hear contagious laughter are at risk of developing psychopathy
For most children and adults, laughter is very contagious, although many times you don’t know what the person doing it is laughing about. However, researchers report in an article that children at risk of developing psychopathy when they become adults don’t have that same drive.
The study found that people at risk for psychopathy show insensitive, non-emotional traits. Furthermore, images of his brain also showed a reduced response to the sound of laughter. Those differences were seen in the brain areas that promote bonding with others and with other people’s emotions, not in the auditory brain areas.
The results show that children who are vulnerable to developing psychopathy don’t experience the world like the rest of us, according to experts.