'Growing up in a home with a psychopathic mother and sister, I experienced this all too often. It was an icy, cold, distant, unfeeling, yet penetrating look.'
The Reptilian Stare
According to Dr. Jacqueline Helfgott, “Clinical observations support the idea that psychopaths engage in acts of visual predation or a 'reptilian stare.’”Growing up in a home with a psychopathic mother and sister, I experienced this all too often. It was an icy, cold, distant, unfeeling, yet penetrating look. Media depictions of psychopaths often focus on the eyes, stressing they are emotionless or hollow.
Some say a psychopath’s eyes are cold and foreboding, the eyes of a predator, while others say they have a hypnotic stare or a look of emptiness akin to the eyes of a reptile. Many reptiles, including most iguanas, are physiologically unable to blink which gives them the characteristic stare.On a recent trip to Costa Rica, I captured an example of that stare on camera which is the photo displayed in this blog. The psychopath’s stare, however, has no physiological explanation. It can be used as a tool for control or to signal dominance.“Unlike a mammal, a lizard does not have parents who protect it and teach it what to do.
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