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Jon Jones isn't a psychopath.
Sociopath, most likely, but nothing points to him being a psychopath.
There's no real distinction between those two terms. Every source you look for for differences between psychopathy and sociopathy all list different things, and they're written by non-scientists in some blog or website. That's a clue that its a bullshit distinction.
Antisocial personality disorder is the actual diagnostic term for it. Dr. Robert Hare also developed a checklist for psychopathy (called the PCL-R) that is currently used in criminal justice settings, and is considered the gold standard test. But he (and many other actual scientists) believe that "sociopath" is synonymous with psychopath and isn't any different. It's a culturally derived word that has no scientific rigor.