Why do some people deny psychopaths like Javier Pera? 🤔️ This is called "harm control". They try to minimize the negative consequences of exposing the character. The goal is to mitigate the impact and restore the image. Each person has to weigh the large amount of information that reveals deviations, compared to an idealized account that can come from a figure that admires him, like a disciple. Sometimes people prefer to cling to those illusions, especially when it comes to someone who is seen as a model to follow. Defending a psychopath who seems "normal" is always the result of an emotional manipulation. It tends to overestimate his good qualities and ignore his problem behavior. In addition, the stigma of confirmation plays us a bad past: we look for and remember only the information that supports