Nature vs Nurture: Psychopaths are born temperamentally different - impulsive, w/ cortical under-arousal, and lack of fear that leads them to risk-taking behavior and an inability to internalize social rules. Sociopaths are born relatively normal. Their personality disorder is seen to be more an effect of negative sociological factors like parental neglect, bad peers, poverty, iq and other situational factors.
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Interchangable: Essentially the terms are interchangeable, with neither really being worse than the other. The full, true clinical term is antisocial personality disorder, the hallmark of which is for the most part, a person who has no conscience.
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