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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: whats the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath?
gpt
They are used interchangably -- there's no distinction. Psychopath has been more common, but people have been encouraged to use sociopath in popular/lay works because people can confuse psychopath with psychotic, and those terms are completely unrelated.