Yes I tried Google, Urban Dictionary, read some online articles etc. but all I get is varying results.
The more I try to distinguish them, the more alike they seem to me 🤔😩
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Progress! Ok from my understanding psychopaths were simply born that way regardless of how good or bad there childhood was and their parents social economic status.
Sociopaths were once [i]normal[/i] until external factors turned them into who they are now.
Sociopaths are not as bad as psychopaths and it's even possible for them to revert back to their pre-sociopathic self.
I find it odd the modern term used to replace both those words: "Anti-social Personal Disorder" contains the word [i]anti social[/i] when some are known to quickly learn and adapt to social behaviour of their 'friends', family, co-workers etc.
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Colloquially, they're pretty much the same in that they involve a disregard for usual societal norms of empathy, sociability, aversion to manipulation, etc, and as others have said only really differ in that some people describe sociopaths as made as opposed to psychopaths being born. Sociopath and psychopath aren't really clinical terms though, at least not anymore. You won't find them in the DSM-5. Instead, their general characteristics will be found under ASPD.