What Leads to "Serial Killer" Behavior?

Serial Killer Typology

There are many ways to classify or create typologies of serial murderers, and one can be either a "lumper" or "splitter" with this endeavor. There are typologies that are based on the frequency and timing of serial behavior, typologies based on the presumed characteristics of the typical perpetrator, and typologies based on perpetrator motivations. There might as well be a typology based on age...

Genesis of a Serial Killer

What leads to cultural intelligence?

It is often easy to seewhen someonemakes a cultural blunder. For instance, during a business meeting at the Paris location of a United States multinational company, a visiting Turkish employee used an aggressive tone in his attempt to discuss the financial status of the companywith U.S. and French executives. The company had been performing poorly over the past few months and the employee not o...

Elevation leads to altruistic behavior.

Feelings of elevation, elicited by witnessing another person perform a good deed, have been hypothesized to motivate a desire to help others. However, despite growing interest in the determinants of prosocial behavior, there is only limited evidence that elevation leads to increases in altruistic behavior. In two experiments, we tested the relationship between elevation and helping behavior. Pr...

Serial Behavior 1 Running head : INTERACTIVE TEST OF SERIAL BEHAVIOR

We describe an interactive, computer-based test inspired by the Trail Making Test (TMT). With this new test, young (mean age=20.4 years) and older subjects (mean age=74.9 years) used natural, pointing responses to order series of items, either numbers, letters, or intermixed letters and numbers. This interactive test, which eliminates several deficiencies of TMT, assesses subjects’ baseline spe...