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Carson said that, in addition to desiring immediate gratification—the “shot of dopamine” that the liar receives from successful deceit—pathological liars are less likely to be dissuaded by the threat of punishment.
She pointed out that Wheeler continued to lie in his applications to Yale, Brown, and McLean Hospital, even after being dismissed from both Bowdoin College in Maine—where he spent his first two undergraduate years—and Harvard for academic dishonesty.
Because of this lack of regard for consequences, Carson said that prison sentences are not always effective in curtailing psychopathic behavior.
“I don’t want to characterize Adam Wheeler as a psychopath,” Carson said, adding that she would need to interview him herself in order to make a diagnosis. “However, I would say that he’s displaying the...
“This store is pretty much the same place it was in 1972,” she said. “Some of my original clients have come back with their grandchildren and told me that the store is exactly how they remember it 30 years ago.?...