Thread:Love Robin/@comment-31064368-20170116161938/@comment-366087-20170116170150

Sociopathy is a subset of Psychopathy. In other words: Not all psychopaths are sociopaths, but all sociopaths ARE psychopaths.

Problem is 1) editors were continuously tagging characters with both categories, and 2) the information they were using is often contradictory.

The latter is understandable since there is only about like 3 articles on socio- vs psycho- to be found online which are REPEATED across multiple sites and THEY are contradictory.

The best online source for the layperson on the subject can be found at Psychopathy and the subsection Sociopathy.

Adding to the problem of the average user being unfamiliar as to what properly defines the two is that the creative teams (writers, etc) on movies and shows and other media get *their* information from one of the oft-repeated yet contradictory articles to be found online. Which means they are writing their characters wrong, but their audiences accept them as correct. In other words, the misconceptions and misinformation is being propagated from what people consider as positions of authority.

And since characters were being tagged with both, well, simpler to just use the parent term of Psychopathy and be done with it.

Of course, any distinctions should be made within the articles. Visitors need to know why and what makes a character either socio- or psycho- with perhaps a Notes notation on when such -pathy is wrongly attributed/diagnosed/written about a character.