Perhaps you’ve described your boss as being a "psychopath", or your cousin who picked on you as a kid as a "sociopath".

But what do these terms really mean? And how does it feel to learn you have psychopathic traits and are, in effect, a high-functioning psychopath?

Are psychopaths more intelligent than other people, and are they more likely to harm those around them?

And how do you tell if you know one - or are one?

Today on Please Explain, explainer reporter Sherryn Groch joins Bianca Hall to discuss this much maligned but little understood condition.

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