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| by Alex Nuti – de Biasi, editor, Journal-Opinion Though our eyes and ears sometimes tell us otherwise, psychopathy is not as prevalent in Vermont and New Hampshire as it is elsewhere in the country. So we have that going for us. “People with so-called ‘dark’ personalities — including psychopaths, narcissists and sadists — are more common in U.S. states with the most adverse conditions, new research found,” reports NewsNation. The global study considers data from 183 countries and all 50 states. “We find that the extent to which countries and US states are characterized by [aversive social conditions] is associated with individuals’ aversive personality levels about 20 [years] later,” write the study’s authors. Dark personalities are least observed in Utah, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Oregon, and Alaska. In fact, if (that’s a big “if”) we’re reading this study’s charts correctly, Vermont has — by far — the lowest mean level of the “Dark Factor of Personality,” which is defined as “the general tendency to maximize one’s individual utility — disregarding, accepting, or malevolently provoking disutility for others — accompanied by beliefs that serve as justifications.” That’s not all. New Hampshire has — by some measure — the lowest level of “aversive societal conditions,” which are “essential” to the dark personality factors. For the purposes of the study, aversive societal conditions are based on four variables: “corruption, inequality, poverty, and violence, jointly reflecting societal conditions in which self-serving behavior at the cost of others can be perceived as adaptive, justifiable, the norm, and/or nonsanctioned.” Of course, it’s still just a study. NewsNation: “Researchers acknowledged that the study has some limitations. It’s impossible for them to know how long participants have lived in certain countries or states before personality tendencies developed, and some data was collected using self-selection services, which could result in inaccurate answers.” In the meantime, it should be noted that New York is among the “standout states” for dark personalities. Somewhere, Ethan Allen smiles. The author is editor of the Journal-Opinion, the weekly community newspaper based in Bradford and serving neighboring communities on both sides of the Connecticut River. |
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“‘Dark Factor of Personality,’ which is defined as ‘the general tendency to maximize one’s individual utility — disregarding, accepting, or malevolently provoking disutility for others — accompanied by beliefs that serve as justifications.'”
IMHO, by that definition, Vermont has the largest faction of Dark Personality Disorder amongst elected and appointed officials in all three branches of state government.
That’s what I was going to say🤣🤣
I completely agree.
Was just thinking and was going to write that I walk by the capitol daily and having listened to thousands of hours of legislative sessions one can clearly feel the malevolence and dark Intention of the beings inside. Having been a security officer and performed daily tours inside the capitol their vibes are even more intense and dark.
And where do Becca, Welch and Bernie originate from?
Wrong! Just view the St Johnsbury rally!
Why do I smell a Marxist confirmation bias here?
The fundamentally flawed Marxist worldview posits that evil and corruption of individuals is a result of external and societal influences, ergo, if we can just alter societal conditions towards a greater utopian and totalitarian state, people will behave better. And we will tweak these conditions to obtain the compliance of our subjects, no matter the pressure or burden which must be placed on them.
The problem is that in such an anti-biblical worldview, human value and dignity are discarded, and, therefore, so are personal responsibility and accountability.
The biblical worldview teaches that the human heart is desperately wicked and corrupt, and only the transformation of the individual human heart and life through repentance and the renewing influence of the gospel and the love of Jesus Christ can ultimately reform society.
I’d also be interested to see how closely each of these findings correlates with the simple fact that the alleged rates of psychopathy are statistically proportionate with the lower populations of these states.
Just wondering…
Well said. What spirit are you filled with? Can you control yourself? How do drug dealers and criminals fit in this? It is a spectrum, which classically was known as pride and we are more filled with pride in Vermont than most all states, California included! We have it on our license plates, for God sake, Vermont Strong. We are the least religious of all states, which inherently suggests we are superior, there is little humility. We have perhaps the most toxic cancel culture in the nation along with the most censored and propagandized press.
I’d ask for our money back on that study.
Victor Frankel, might disagree. Bible teachings completely disagree. The Holy Spirit disagrees. Book of Job, good reading. What about Joseph?
Great insight on your post”
Clearly the legislature was excluded from the studied population unless the fact that the majority of them are not originally from Vermont was an exclusion criteria.
Interesting because i often feel as though i’m surrounded by narcissistic psychopaths in Vermont. I wonder what the sample size was.