I don’t know if you touch on this elsewhere, but I wonder what the relationship between the mafioso nature and psychopathy is. They seem fairly similar, but e.g. psychopathy is often hidden by psychopathic charm, used to manipulate people ‘nicely’, whereas it seems the mafioso nature’s effectiveness comes from others knowing you have it and believing your threats.
If psychopathy is an evolutionary strategy, keeping it hidden presumably means people don’t avoid/kill you. Or maybe psychopaths only keep it hidden until they get powerful enough that they are fairly safe, then reveal it in order to issue credible threats like a mafioso. (E.g. some dictators.)
I don’t know if you touch on this elsewhere, but I wonder what the relationship between the mafioso nature and psychopathy is. They seem fairly similar, but e.g. psychopathy is often hidden by psychopathic charm, used to manipulate people ‘nicely’, whereas it seems the mafioso nature’s effectiveness comes from others knowing you have it and believing your threats.
If psychopathy is an evolutionary strategy, keeping it hidden presumably means people don’t avoid/kill you. Or maybe psychopaths only keep it hidden until they get powerful enough that they are fairly safe, then reveal it in order to issue credible threats like a mafioso. (E.g. some dictators.)