Mediated Psychopathy—A Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Representations of Aggression
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چکیده
hen concepts such as “terrorism,” “fanaticism” and “extremism” proliferate epidemically among the popular explanations of human aggressiveness, bluntly exposing their inherent hollowness, other concepts stay in the background, influencing, without necessarily being mentioned, our view of aggressiveness. Psychopathy is such a concept, and its pretensions to explain are quite extraordinary. “Psychopaths make up a significant portion of the people the media describe,” the world-leading expert on psychopathy (or at least the most quoted one), Hare, asserts:
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