Monday, November 21, 2011

Finding sources

It makes sense for me to start my research off with figuring out just what a serial killer is. To figure this out I turned to Google. I found a website called DeviantCrimes. This website has many different definitions of the term. This didn't really help me to narrow down the definition of a serial killer at all. I decided to move on from there and start researching some of the common terms you hear in association to serial killers. When you hear about serial killers you usually hear the term psychopath. So I thought that I should research this first and figure out just what a psychopath is. I searched in Google and found an article that I thought would be able to help me with this. The first article that I read was What “Psychopath” Means. This article helped give me a good definition of the word and helped to dispel some common myths about psychopaths. This made me wonder if there were any feelings at all that a psychopath felt at all? I once again turned to Google and I found the article titled The Hidden Suffering of the Psychopath. I was intrigued to learn that psychopaths do feel some emotions, they just don't feel them the way that a normal person would. I also learned that it is possible to treat someone with a psychopathic condition. Now that I have learned these things I can go on to explore next week just how a serial killer comes to be. 

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