User blog comment:Magma MK-II/Complete Monster category: Keep or Delete/@comment-24602967-20160205112951/@comment-366087-20160205212155

Actually, IRL, sociopaths can feel both shame and remorse for their actions, although usually attributing others into forcing their hands. Many have a conscience, it is just too weak to keep them from acting on impulses. And that is part of the key difference between Sociopaths and Psychopaths.

It is the latter which lacks consciences. The basic rule of thumb is "sociopath, hot-headed; psychopath, cold-hearted".

Problem is the diffs are not properly understood, not even by writers, and casual searches online pull up the same basic 3 or 4 articles reposted, and even then they are contradictory and with reversed info between them.

The best online source for laymen info about it is Psychotherapy.

I suggest that the two cats should be consolidated into one with a rewrite.