To me, evil is the deliberate and orchestrated action of an individual or group to achieve an aim that is going to hurt, ...

Psychologist Robert Hare created a test that measures whether someone is a psychopath. The test is used extensively in our criminal justice system to help decide whether inmates should get parole ...

Medically reviewed by Michael MacIntyre, MD Sociopaths and psychopaths lack empathy for others, but they differ in ...

Psychopaths do everything possible to avoid responsibility for their actions and use scapegoating as a tool to do so. They ...

Into the Mind of a Psychopath Fifty years ago, his chilling experiences as a prison psychologist led Robert Hare on a lifelong quest to understand one of humanity’s most fascinating — and dangerous — ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has various characteristics of psychopaths, but one of the most ...

UBC professor emeritus Robert Hare, an internationally renowned expert on psychopaths, has offered his side of the story in a heated dispute over the boundaries of academic freedom. One of his ...

Robert Hare, the psychologist who created the PCL-R test for psychopaths, at first resisted giving the checklist to people in the criminal justice system. But he ultimately agreed to publish the ...

It was the work of Robert Hare, a criminal psychologist, that would indelibly link psychopathy with violence. Hare took Cleckley’s list of characteristics and created a quantifiable test.

But Robert Hare would always say no, that in the absence of empathy, which is the definition in psychology of a psychopath, you will always get malevolence.

Psychopaths don’t seek out treatment on their own, said Robert Hare, who has studied psychopathy for more than 40 years and developed the scale used to measure it.

Robert Hare steps out of the sunlight and into a West Vancouver pub. “Let me see your eyes,” says the 82-year old, piercing me with a cautious gaze that has sized up hundreds of criminals, including ...