If you think your brain is too solidly functional and needs some breaking, this might be the video for you. Woman gets "kidnapped at knifepoint" and driven away by the alleged attacker in her own car. Her boyfriend and father of her disabled child, pleads for help from the police, who act reluctant and question the account he gives of what happened. Long video short, she is tracked down after a few days in a motel room with the guy.

Turns out, she is a student social worker and met him at the jail where she worked and he was serving a 13 year sentence for rape. Her story rapidly evolves under questioning, and in the end, she is defending him and saying stuff like she doesn't want to be the second woman to send him to jail.

The boyfriend in this story, needs to RUN LIKE HELL away from this woman!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xEvZM3_KvY

@adam-l

therefore it relies on deep, ancestral faculties.

To add technical detail as a starting point for a deeper dive. Primate level cognition and metacognition, on the level that humans consider setting us apart from "lower animals ", is based in the Neocortex, which evolved long after the Old Mammalian and Reptilian brains, both of which still make up the bulk of human braincase content. Dark Triad individuals can perform dumb AF at tasks and skills that run on neocortex circuitry, yet some can greatly outperform their "intellectual " peers at crafty self serving and group dynamic manipulation. It makes me think of the terabytes of Naughty Dog shorts showing how creative canines can be at getting something placed out of their reach, often gaming humans and other dogs with rather detailed multi step schemes requiring forethought and planning. The underlying brain circuitry driving such behaviors evolved EONS before we clever monkies built our neocortex atop it.

It can require a LOT of neocortex processing time, for a trusting intellectual type. To detect when a seemingly dumb person is successfully manipulating them by outperforming at using these older brain circuits.

Lol, autocorrect kept trying to change Neocortex to Neocon. NOOOOOOO!

@Vermillion-Rx

I'm not sure as for the machiavellianism. I don't think a fool is capable of the tactic and foresight for it.

I'm here to warn men: individuals can function very poorly by cognitive measures, yet actually EXTREMELY skilled at manipulating people socially and emotionally. I got tangled up once with a real Lucifers Daughter. Figured initially would make a convenient fuck buddy and easy to discard. Ended with her breaking into my house as I slept, AFTER screwing all the doors and windows shut from the inside, and repeatedly disappearing into thin air when the increasingly skeptical cops arrived. Glorious was the day I finally got my day in court for a restraining order, and she had the poor sense to show up to contest it WITH active arrest warrants. Bottom line: never get complacent assuming low cognition means safe from high Machiavellian function level!!!