If the next person you meet says or does any of these things, they just might be a psychopath. If, as Jim Rohn says, we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with, you definitely ...

One of the most enduring ideas about crime — and violence more broadly — is that a lot of it is committed by people we call “psychopaths.” If you didn’t grow up with procedurals like “Law & Order: SVU ...

The award-winning 1955 movie, "Rebel Without a Cause," 1 featuring James Dean and Natalie Wood, created a sensation as it featured issues echoing society’s concern at that time with delinquency and ...

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If we base our conceptualization of the psychopath on television and film characters, we see the psychopath as a methodical and controlled perpetrator of horrific violence. Perhaps the former Showtime ...

Psychologist Robert Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist is the most widely used diagnostic tool to identify psychopathy — not only in prisons and institutions. If you give the test to CEOs or other corporate ...

Steven Gillespie has consulted for Ministry of Justice. He receives funding from Economic and Social Research Council. Psychopaths might account for only about 1% of the general population, but they ...

Psychopaths may be capable of empathizing with others in some situations, a new study has found. The study's researchers investigated the brain activity of psychopathic criminals in the Netherlands.