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 ...

If someone asked you to imagine a psychopath, who would you picture? Many of us might conjure an image of a violent criminal who will do anything without remorse to get what they want. After all, ...

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 ...

A new study has found that psychopaths show structural changes in particular areas of the brain that deal with things like impulse control and emotional regulation. This improved understanding may ...

After 26 years in prison, he was due for a parole hearing. In California, before a "lifer" like Dixon appears before the parole board, a state psychologist must first evaluate whether he poses a risk ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. While studying prisoners in 1980, psychologist Dr. Robert Hare developed the Psychopathy Checklist - a list that evaluates people based on twenty ...

PSYCHOPATH — a descriptive word that conjures images of highly intelligent, devious and conniving criminals with disconcerting tendencies inclusive of low empathy and remorse, grandiosity, impulsivity ...

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 ...

Robert Roberson faces execution in Texas on Oct. 16 for the 2002 murder of his young daughter Nikki Curtis. For years, a growing pool of supporters — from the lead detective in his case to Dr. Phil — ...

In 1885, an English psychiatrist published the case of a man called W.B., who had spent much of his life cycling through jail and asylums. W.B. was “a quiet and useful man,” the doctor wrote in The ...

If someone asked you to imagine a psychopath, who would you picture? Many of us might conjure an image of a violent criminal who will do anything without remorse to get what they want. After all, ...