Serial Killers- Support the Nature Or Nuture Aspect (Reps 1k+)

[Serb-Muscle]

Give me some good valid arguments and links to where you found them, I need nurture or nature arguments of serial Killers. Where they born like that or Develop it? Go.

[(b-,-)b]

my little bro did a project about some famous ones...

but he would never let me see it cause he's a dick head.

[TheSoldier]

1. May have been influenced from when they were young such as violent parents, or other role models.
2. Bullied or physically abused in school, see violence as power, and seeing it will solve their problems.
3. Video games lolz

[benjammin352]

its called antisocial personality disorder (psychopath) and there is some chemical imbalances in their brains and they don't feel any regret upon killing or stealing or something socially unacceptable.

[MaTTyU]

due to the nature of the debate be it nature/nurture, everyone could be second guessing the reasons as to why serial killers turn out the way they do forever. Based on the social learning theory by Bandura, we learn through immitation of adults from a young age, and it is easy to immitate aggresion as seen by an adult from these young ages, so people could say that during their childhood, somebody must have subjected the child to excessive aggresion or hatred toward particular people etc which could therfore affect them in later life to turn out the way they do. however there is the other side as somebody said, due to chemical imbalances that are unforseen, which would be the nurture side of it, could be caused to a small deficit in the psyche. its sometimes seen that the way somebody is born, is the way that they naturally should be..

i do tend to get carried away

[Gancor]

Just fukheads.

Somewhere along the line they have acquired diseased processes so their desire to kill someone over rules their own rational thought, possible reprocussions and even their human attribute of empathy.

I doubt the desire to kill someone else is genetic, although mental problems run in families.

[Solidsnake4321]

Some stories

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/

[someonefat]

do your own homework

[abbh62]

do your own homework

Sigmund Freud, often referred to as the "father" of psychology" said that if you were to give him 12 healthy newborns he could make them into doctors, lawyers, bums, or serial killers...so he believed that it was all in the nurture of the child

[Hyruliangoat]

its called antisocial personality disorder (psychopath) and there is some chemical imbalances in their brains and they don't feel any regret upon killing or stealing or something socially unacceptable.

psychopaths arent all nessecarily killers though

[Hyruliangoat]

Sigmund Freud, often referred to as the "father" of psychology" said that if you were to give him 12 healthy newborns he could make them into doctors, lawyers, bums, or serial killers...so he believed that it was all in the nurture of the child

i think honestly he could have done it 2, smart guy

[Prob382]

mostly nurture
-they may have been taught insensitivity early in life
-may have been exposed to animal abuse
-may have been beaten or abused as child and got a messed up view of reality

nature
-may have been born with mental disorder and this is cause for their actions

i tried my best, and thats what i got...

[4backcracks]

its got to be nature

millions of children grow up with the same abusive or insensitive parents or any other number of things that are usually associated with nurture, but only a very small percentage end up snapping and becoming serial killers

[Davidthefat]

Develop

[MadeUnderground]

I've been doing a lot of research regarding serial killers over the years and I don't want to get into it much because I'm lazy and I don't have any sources that I can link you to via internet.

But the general consensus is that it is a little bit of both.

Some serial killers can be born without empathy + a violent upbringing. Whereas others sustain a head injury (usually in the frontal lobe region which contributes to empathy/personality). Statistics showed that about 70% of serial killers had some kind of head injury at some point in their life.

Most serial killer cases I have read about (and I've read a ton) usually have a terrible upbringing, along with a head injury.
But there have been a few cases I have read where there was no clear evidence indicating psychopathic behavior, other than the fact that the individual seemed to be "too perfect".

Ted Bundy for example, didn't really have a violent upbringing, but some of his family members recalled him slipping knives underneath the bed while his aunt was sleeping when he was younger for no apparent reason.


Basically, it's a little bit of both, there is no 100% one or the other.

There are plenty of people incapable of feeling emotions that do not wind up being serial killers.

Sigmund Freud, often referred to as the "father" of psychology" said that if you were to give him 12 healthy newborns he could make them into doctors, lawyers, bums, or serial killers...so he believed that it was all in the nurture of the child

Sigmund Freud is an absolute nut job, most of his theories have been debunked.

On top of that he is not the father of Psychology, William James is.

[CMoneyFreshh]

serb... you stillll owe me.