eli5: are psychopaths always dangerous?

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I never really met a psychopath myself but I always wonder if they are really that dangerous as portraied in movies and TV-shows.
If not can you please explain me why in simple words as I don’t understand much about this topic?

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No. There’s this story about a doctor who looked at a brain scan and explained that this person would be a dangerous psychopath, only to learn that it was his own brain scan. Just because you don’t feel things like remorse, it doesn’t mean that you can’t intellectually understand and strive at being a good person.

[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath-180947814/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath-180947814/)

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