Here are some of the reasons I love Eesh:
1) He has a talent for “reading people,” for sizing them up quickly.
2) He has excellent oral communication skills.
3) His insight into the psyche of others combined with a superficial but convincing verbal fluency allows him to change his persona skillfully as it suits the situation and his game plan.
4) Like a chameleon, Eesh can hide who he really is and mask his true intentions from his victims for extended periods.
5) Taken altogether, these traits and skills make Eesh a "near-perfect invisible human predator."
Such predators are also known as "psychopaths"!
And that, in a nutshell, is why I love Eesh!
CASE (Committee for the Analysis and Study of Eesh)
CASE is funded by a generous grant from the Fairfax Underground Society for the the Reclamation and Reform of Eesh.
Source: Jennifer L. Skeem, et al.,
Psychopathic Personality: Bridging the Gap Between Scientific Evidence and Public Policy, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, vol. 12, no. 3, 95, 103-04 (quoting Babiak and Hare,
Snakes in Suits: When psychopaths Go to Work, 37-39 (New York, NY: Regan Books 2006)).
Attachments | Boldness and Meanness
The triarchic model proposes that psychopathy can be conceptualized
in terms of three distinct but intersecting phenotypic constructs:
disinhibition, boldness, and meanness.
Boldness encompasses the capacity to remain calm and
focused in pressured or threatening situations, rapid recovery
from stressful events, high self-assurance and social efficacy,
and a tolerance for unfamiliarity and danger. Terms related to
boldness include fearless dominance, daringness, audacity,
indomitability, resiliency, surgency, and hardiness.
In personality terms, boldness is the nexus of social dominance,
low stress reactivity, and thrill/adventure seeking.
Boldness manifests behaviorally as imperturbability, social poise,
assertiveness, persuasiveness, bravery, and venturesomeness.
Although it includes features that are essentially adaptive, boldness is
also associated empirically (see below) with certain maladaptive
proclivities (e.g., narcissism, thrill seeking, lack of empathy).
Meanness describes a constellation of attributes including
deficient empathy, disdain for and lack of close attachments
with others, rebelliousness, excitement seeking, exploitativeness,and
empowerment through cruelty. Related terms connected to specific
operational measures include callousness, coldheartedness, and antagonism.
In personality terms, meanness resides midway between (high) dominance and
(low) affiliation. From this perspective, meanness can be viewed as agentic
disaffiliation: a style in which individuals actively pursue valued goals
without regard for the impact their actions have on others, or perhaps even
with the explicit intent to cause harm. Meanness can be expressed in terms
of arrogance, verbal derisiveness, defiance of authority, an absence of
close personal relationships, aggressive competitiveness, physical cruelty
toward people and animals, strategic aggression and exploitation of others,
and destructive excitement seeking.
In comparison with boldness, which is emphasized in descriptions
of psychopathy in community and psychiatric samples, meanness is
more likely to appear in conceptions of psychopathy in criminal-offender
samples. This difference in emphasis is also evident in leading measures of
psychopathy designed for use with community samples as opposed to incarcerated