What emotions can a psychopath actually feel?

A controversial question as due to the methods available it's impossible to measure realiably how a psychopath will or won't react in a certain situation. With a doing on official brain scan to measure how certain parts of the brain react, its hard to know. One thing consistent with psychopaths is the lack of empathy. read more

Psychopaths may feel the same emotions as "sane" people, but react differently. Example: a psychopath (like Ted Bundy) may feel empathy for his victims, but enjoy causing those sensations of terror and pain in his victims. A sociopath simply doesn't feel most emotions, if any. read more

Psychopaths feel fleeting emotions and are not controlled by them. If they think they love someone, it is not a deep attachment that shapes their life in any way. Psychopaths say that they do feel anger strongly, but that is also fleeting. They don't need to resolve things, and they don't ruminate; the emotion just dissipates on its own. read more

That a Psychopath can show the same brain responses, witch are linked to empathy, doesn't mean that the psychopath actually feel in the same way like the "normal person". Here's the problem: when the psychopath seduces a victim and uses for that the ability of empathy, he still feels gilt, like other people. read more