Kevin Dutton

Kevin Dutton was born in London in 1967. He graduated and received his doctorate in Psychology from the University of Essex, where he researched, as a fellow, the issue of Cognitive Biases and Emotional Disorders. He moved to the University of Cambridge, where he taught in the areas of Science and Religion for ten years. Specializing in the study of social influence (which he explored in the book Flipnosis, translated into 18 languages), he is currently a research psychologist at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. While writing What We Can Learn from Psychopaths, he even electronically self-stimulated the region of his brain responsible for emotions in order to experience firsthand what it is like to be a psychopath.