Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-366087-20160126100400/@comment-26205772-20160126103157

For these categories, I'll add this thought to the matter; I safely say that the differentiation between the two categories can be rather vague, so you'll get lots of people either tagging both categories on at once or one of them without actually knowing the definition beyond a vague sort of "lack of empathy" or that sort.

We should not, however, be measuring these categories strictly by medical terms; as EvilLamp says, this is a database for fictional characters and not every character is going to be written so that they meet the exact definitions of a sociopath or psychopath. It's best if people actually have some idea about the category and how it's defined (as well as a lot of categories on this wiki) but for now I'll echo EvilLamp.