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 ...

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 — ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The word psychopath strikes fear into the hearts of most ordinary individuals conjuring up images of axe-wielding mass murderers or sexual predators stalking the wards of prison isolation wings. But ...

How to tell if you’re a psychopath Robert Hare developed an exam called PCL-R in the 1970s that tests for psychopathic traits, writes Calli Tzani-Pepelasi ...