Unraveling the enigma of success: The Intersection of Decision-Making, Personality, and Psychopathy

"This paper compared decision-making mechanisms between action and state-oriented people using paradigms capable of dissociating between decision-making mechanisms and confidence processing...Most human goals involve a sequence of choices and actions...At each point in this multi-stage process, our confidence can influence how likely we will progress. Since completing all the intermediate steps is necessary to succeed, low confidence bias has many opportunities to seed doubt and lead to giving up...All else being equal, this confidence gap might be the reason why some people succeed where others cannot" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268501#sec046

The following excerpt comes from the conclusions of a recent PLOS ONE study titled "Are You Confident Enough to Act? Individual Differences in Action Control Are Associated with Post-Decisional Metacognitive Bias." While the findings provide valuable insight into the relationship between confidence and decision-making, they also open the door to intriguing avenues for future research. One particularly compelling question is the potential correlation between confidence and psychopathy. 

Unlike empathetic individuals, psychopaths often display a remarkable ability to make difficult decisions, even when those choices have severe consequences for others. Examining what proportion of highly confident individuals exhibit traits associated with psychopathy could shed light on the complex interplay between personality, decision-making processes, and ethical considerations.