Anyone reading this is probably aware that Hollywood movies are a bad place to find accurate representations of mental illness. Oh sure, certain films may look into the actual psychology of sociopaths and criminals with rigor and research, but most screenwriters would rather write scenes of murder and mayhem than actually bother interrogating the minds of their killers. If you ever see a movie psychopath laughing wildly at their own mayhem, they're doing a movie thing, not a psychopath thing. Even films that purport to know about psychology aren't always accurate, often communicating bits and pieces of psychological realism without doing the heavy lifting. Think of "Psycho" or any other film about dissociative identity disorder .

According to a 2014 report from Science News , however,

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