Psychological Super-Stimuli
The Anti-Social Drug Psychologists mention how ASPD type people appear more attractive to the opposite sex. Psychologists also talk about Super-Stimuli (see video below). Is it possible that Super-Stimuli might affect both genders? The ability of ASPD types to effortlessly mimic behaviors that they know people are instinctively drawn to, may be a kind of Super-Stimuli that prevents people from forming more normal attachments. This may also be helped by the media portraying extreme characteristics as more normal than they are; things like excessive confidence and effortless charm etc, which are more characteristic of NPD and ASPD personality types. The usage of gender-neutral terms above is due to the fact that the argument could apply equally to both visual and psychological stimuli, affecting both males and females. ASPD psychological tactics may be a kind of Super-Stimuli too, not different from the NPD visual ones. Push-Pull etc are well known psychological pl...
