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Kevin Dutton

Kevin Dutton is a British psychologist and writer whose work explores psychopathy, persuasion, and the psychology of extreme performance. He is best known for The Wisdom of Psychopaths and Flipnosis, books that brought academic ideas on social influence and personality to a broad popular audience.

传记与作者历程

Kevin Dutton is a British psychologist and author whose career has been built on taking subjects often treated as sensational and examining them with a researcher’s curiosity and a storyteller’s control. Born in London in 1967, he has traced his early fascination with persuasion and personality to childhood scenes of his father selling goods on a market stall, an environment that sharpened his eye for charm, confidence, and psychological leverage. He later earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Essex in 2000, worked there as a senior research fellow, and went on to spend many years in research roles at Oxford and Cambridge. That combination of academic training and close observation of everyday behavior became the foundation of his writing voice.

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名言

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He could have sold shaving cream to the Taliban
-Learning from Psychopaths
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Those who go where angels fear to tread often have more in common than you might think with the demons they rub shoulders with
-How Psychopaths Can Save Your Life
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Books make us see in a way that casual immersion in the Internet, and the quicksilver virtual world it offers, doesn’t
-Psychopathy's Double Edge
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I started studying Psychopaths, really, to figure out my Old Man
-My Old Man's a Psychopath
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Bottle Moments is a recipe for rainbows
-Bottle Moments
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None of these traits or characteristics is necessarily a problem in itself
-Podcast #889: The Wisdom of Psychopaths

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Dark psychology and persuasion awareness
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Dark psychology and persuasion awareness

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Master dark psychology & academic mind tricks
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Dark Psychology
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Dark Psychology

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The Hidden Drivers of Human Behavior
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"Kevin Dutton is a Special Forces style psychologist"

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