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Jane gets to keep her identity as a sleeper sociopath, Xavier gets to take a plane to the surface to find his wife and the rest of Paradise gets to handily ignore that the very fabric of their society almost collapsed.
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
The other is as a more authentic-to-the-stories sociopath portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch, only updated to twenty-first century London.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Feb. 2025
But Bloom says just because Jane killed Billy doesn’t mean the sociopath didn’t have feelings for him.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 Feb. 2025
Relationship challenges: People-pleasers are often targets for manipulative individuals in personal and professional settings, such as narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths, who will prey on the kindness and need to please from the people-pleaser.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
The other is as a more authentic-to-the-stories sociopath portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch, only updated to twenty-first century London.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Feb. 2025
But Bloom says just because Jane killed Billy doesn’t mean the sociopath didn’t have feelings for him.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 Feb. 2025
Relationship challenges: People-pleasers are often targets for manipulative individuals in personal and professional settings, such as narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths, who will prey on the kindness and need to please from the people-pleaser.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Sociopath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sociopath. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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sociopath
noun
so·cio·path
ˈsō-sē-ə-ˌpath 
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
: a sociopathic individual
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