Psychologist Kevin Dutton presents the classic psychological test known as the trolley problem with a variation. Take the test and measure your response on the psychopathic spectrum. Dutton is the author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success (goo.gl/pFwyHC). Transcript-- We all know about the psychopaths enhanced killer instinct, their finely tuned vulnerability antennae. But it may surprise you to know that there are some situations in which psychopaths are actually more adept at saving lives than they are at taking them. So let me give you an example of what I mean by that, okay? Imagine youve got a train and its hurtling down a track. In its path, five people are trapped on the line and cannot escape. Fortunately, you can flick a switch, which diverts the train down a fork in that track, away from those five people, but at a price. There is another person trapped down that fork and the train will kill them instead. Question: Should you flick the switch? https://youtube/watch?v=KUsGDVOCLVQ
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