Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20170522044827/@comment-4010415-20170531191613

Nikoli the rebel wrote: 1. Good arguements on all sides but "The writers suck. They would never think of that." would not be an acceptable arguement in most shows, even if it is the most likely outcome in RWBY.

2. @Chish I'd like to add that scientists have to debrief their patients under single and double blind studies and offer free counseling under certain circumstances.

3. Do you know the results of that experiment? It sounds fascinating. 1. Sadly, that's just the kind of show RWBY is, to be honest.

2. Indeed. Human experimentation has definitely come a long way.

3. It's been quite a while since I read about it, but if I recall correctly, when they did the facial expressions part, they would show a neutral face, then a smiling face, then a neutral face again, then a fearful face. For the normal subjects, their brain showed a higher amount of activity for both smiling and fear than they did for neutral. For the psychopathic subjects that they tested, their brain showed more activity for smiling than neutral but, for some reason, showed less activity for fear than neutral.

When it came to showing them words, the psychopathic subjects that they tested showed odd activity when shown words like "rape" and, I think, "murder".

I can't remember if the psychopathic subjects that they tested were prison inmates or not, but apparently, people who have a high level of psychopathy tend to be in and out of prison a lot. I read more recently that there are people who want to see if you can actually put psychopathic people through therapy that will train the parts of their brain that don't work as they should to start functioning properly. Obviously, such therapy would work better on younger psychopaths, so the psychopathy would need to be caught early.