Psychopaths are extremely skilled at imitating human emotions. It's how they manipulate other people, or how they gain power over their environment.
How do they understand emotions if they don't have them?
Well, they have emotions. They just don't believe other people have them. Or, more specifically, they don't believe that other people have interior lives.
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