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“Video games, beyond their content, can favor pathological aggression, withdrawal, escape from reality and reduction of interests,” the study noted.

What George was experiencing and doing wasn’t morbid, or weird, or pathological, it was . . . good.

Finnigan, the retired detective, attended the virtual hearing and perceived no difference in the “pathological lying sociopath” he began studying in 1979.

Here, food is rarely appetizing, but it is always expressive, a kind of edible theater for the gang’s obsessions, failures and pathological self-regard.

He said he regarded Martinez as a “pathological liar,” and one of the most manipulative people he’d met in his long career.