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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...