People with high pain thresholds are more likely to be psychopaths

Scientists have found that those who are able to tolerate high levels of pain are more likely to have psychopathic tendencies.

This is because they are less able to learn from painful experiences, as trials conducted on the general public showed that individuals with psychopathic traits failed to change their behaviour even when hurt by painful electric shocks.

Dr Dimana Atanassova, the lead author of the research at Radboud University in the Netherlands, told PsyPost: "The exploitative, antisocial behaviour of those with high psychopathic traits has often been looked at through the prism of callousness or lack of remorse - in a sense, that they simply don't care about the consequences.

"But this study's findings suggest that the problem might be partially explained with a deficit in how they learn about consequences."

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