Making the Casey

I'm not going to say another word about Casey Anthony after this post, but just looking at her pictures, you can see she has the psychopath eyes thing going, that flat aspect, the eyes of a person devoid of compassion, empathy, or shame. Psychopaths always have that "tell" in their eyes, that inner emptiness at the heart of whatever superficial glibness and serpentine charm they may possess. The eyes say it all.

Not to say they can't cry crocodile tears when it suits them. In fact, psychopaths are known for that, to be able to conjure up the tears when it suits them, but the emptiness of their gaze is something they have a tougher time concealing. In that respect, the eyes really are the mirror into the soul. Odds are that the rather short neuronal path from brain to eye (borne out of evolutionary necessity, no doubt -- you need that visual information FAST), it's probably transmitting faster than the psychopath can react, or they likely have to consciously mask it to try to conceal that emotional emptiness, and maybe it's hard for them to do. Just watch out for folks with those empty, flat eyes...