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Originally Posted by AcGold
Actually no, quite the opposite. Psychopaths are often very intelligent. Psychopathy involves most importantly lack of empathy and a conscience. Psychopaths are capable of organizing and the mental illness does not exclude intelligent behavior requiring high levels of cognitive ability. Schizophrenics, dissociative or delusional type people will have more trouble as the cognitive ability is not there.
A psychopath is often smart enough to smile right at you and convince you they're your friend when all they intend is to use you. It's a complex type of mental illness and requires substantial research to fully understand.
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Psychopaths are pretty much the same as everyone else when it comes to IQ, most are average to stupid, they are the car salesman that sold you a lemon or the builder that ripped your elderly mother off, we tend to think they are smart because the smart ones tend to have such a massive impact.