I heard that most sociopaths are not entirely emotionless but are wired wrong for lack of a better term so how do sociopaths or psychopaths experience emotion on a daily basis?

Answer 1

Perspective

I feel like I might offer some insight into this subject. I've been called a "psychopath" and a "sociopath" on many occasions; the main reason for this I believe is that I am withdrawn and don't get emotionally worked up over every slightest stimuli in the environment, or every little twist in whatever is being gossipped about.

I don't consider myself to be a "psychopath" or "sociopath"; I simply do not express emotions the way the majority of people do. In fact, the way the majority of people express emotion seem to be "psychotic." Most people get emotionally worked up over fickle transient instances, and get caught up in the emotions of others, which may be based on nothing more than insubstantial gossip and group hysterics. My emotions are based on knoweldge, and are long-term; not swayed by insubstantialities.

I think a large element of this is the amygdalae processing of emotionally immature people (which seems to be most people) and consequent mirror-neuron rejection of seeing someone who is not emotionally engaged in whatever contextual group-cohesive emotional state is being activated at the time. I.E. most people, not engaging in much self-analysis, will see a non-emotive individual, briefly process this emotional state through their own empathic mirroring, then subsequently reject this state, and in turn project their own negative emotions thus elicited onto the non-emotive individual, possibly accessing neural net categorizations activated at the time via soliciting of neurohormone states and filtering the perception of said individual with negative conceptualities, such as "psychopath".

I don't believe I would really fit the clinical traits of being a "psychopath" or "sociopath", because I subjectively experience all the emotions and empathy as others, probably even more so , BUT am subjected to these insulting classificiations by people (not anyone with any psychology training) but I hope this rather personal exploration might offer some insight into this subject.

Live long and prosper.

Wrong. In actual fact, there are no structural difference in the brains of psychopaths (Dr. Robert Hare, University of California) and their emotionlessness is actually a neurocognitive problem. They cannot attach emotional connotation to any intellectualised concept they conceive or think, and hence, their unusual use of language and conceptry. It's as though the words "lack colour"; in fact, they even lack a binarial basis to their thinking (black and white). Everything's a monotomy of impressions and charms for the psychopath, an appearance, a surface-facing fascade.

A sociopath on the other hand can see in binary terms but not the "colours" of emotional connotation you experience. Their thinking is less of an act but it's their authorative assertion that caused some of science's biggest mistakes.