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 ...

An online quiz that questions how you approach life goals and interactions with others can reveal if you have psychopathic tendencies. Professor Michael Levenson, an expert in psychology at Oregon ...

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 ...

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, ...

Robert L. Roberson III was scheduled for execution in Texas on October 16. He won a stay, but the case isn't over. He was convicted of the murder of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis. The ...

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“How do you convince someone who thinks you’re crazy that you’re not?” said Carolyn Kellogg in the Los Angeles Times. In his latest venture into a world of shaky thinking, Jon Ronson, the author of ...

Twenty-six years after Robert Dixon Jr. went to prison for acting as an accessory to murder, friends and family swear that he is a new man, one... Can A Test Really Tell Who's A Psychopath? In ...