To help the world understand why humans perform certain actions, we have to study the human mind. Specifically fields that will help progress mankind. Trying to understand why psychopaths and borderline personality disorder’s commit the crimes that they do is an important step in the direction of preventing it. The article, “Emotion in Criminal Offenders With Psychopathy and Borderline Personality Disorder” addresses this field accurately. Although it focuses on the physiological aspects of this …showed first 75 words of 698 total…

…showed last 75 words of 698 total…help us understand why criminals perform actions that they do. This study took into consideration the startle reflex, their emotional arousal, and the index of emotional expression. Furthermore, they used enough subjects to make an accurate generalization. And Finally, I was only able to find one small problem with their methods. If we can discover what drives psychopaths to do the terrible things that they do, we may be able to create a better society.