Senior corporate leaders have been numbered among those who tend to show psychopathic traits. The standard screening test for potential psychopaths is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. Read the list ...

After its publication in 1991, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) became established as the “gold standard” for determining the extent to which an individual possesses psychopathic ...

The topic of psychopathy comes up frequently in the media, and one of the most common questions that psychologists on television and in print are asked sounds simple on the surface: “What’s the ...

May 29, 2009 — Unlike other murderers, parents who kill their own children are not typically psychopathic, socially isolated substance abusers with a long criminal record but may have distinct ...

This research offers compelling evidence that the brains of individuals with psychopathic traits exhibit distinct volumetric differences compared to healthy controls, potentially providing a ...

A woman who claims she’s been diagnosed as a psychopath has detailed the telltale signs of the personality disorder she exhibited as a child. A young woman, who posts under the handle @victhepath, has ...

Blink and you’ll miss it. If you suspect someone is a psychopath, just look into their eyes, experts advise. In a 2018 study, researchers at Cardiff and Swansea universities investigated the effect of ...

Many of the traits we seek in leaders, such as fearlessness, dominant behavior, and immunity to stress, are found in psychopaths. Indeed, psychopaths are found in greater proportions among CEOs.