When unpacking the features that make up psychopathy, it can be hard to know where to begin. Three key qualities emerge from ...

A new study published in Cognition and Emotion provides evidence that people with psychopathic traits might struggle to share ...

Abigail Marsh has found that many psychopaths don’t want to be cruel and uncaring, and argues that they deserve support to ...

Also surprising was that the majority of these potential psychopaths were women. The study comes from Dr Fiona Girkin, a ...

Some psychologists argue that certain people with psychopathic traits such as meanness can excel in business and other areas where boldness is an asset. akindo via Getty Images Think of a psychopath, ...

Would you want a psychopath looking after your pension? Or what about your shares? In a recent talk at the Cambridge Festival of Science, I spoke about the latest research relating to a psychopath’s ...

Psychopathy - Distorting a complex problem. From the train tracks of Auschwitz to the crawl space of John Wayne Gacy, human beings are capable of committing the most terrible of deeds. As a society, ...

When dealing with a psychopath, it can be unnerving to realize just how calculated they can be in choosing their targets. While it’s not about living in fear, understanding the traits psychopaths ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever wonder what goes on inside the mind of a psychopath? We all have our dark moments, those fleeting thoughts we'd never admit ...

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 ...

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.