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

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

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

A new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality highlights an important link between the trait of psychopathy and charisma. The research argues that a higher level of charisma in ...

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

I am a professor of psychology, a psychopathy researcher, a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy, and the co-founder of the non-profit organization Psychopathy Is. So you can ...

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The neuroscientist and psychologist Abigail Marsh explained what makes a psychopath. Marsh said that while psychopathy is a spectrum, all people with it have four defining traits. They are ...

Psychopathy and sociopathy are two terms often used interchangeably, yet they describe different patterns of behavior rooted in distinct emotional and cognitive traits. Both fall under the broader ...

Should a diagnosis of psychopathy be reason to sentence a criminal lightly or extend time behind bars? According to new research, judges are likely to add prison time to the sentences of psychopaths, ...

Living the “fast life” says more about a person than their proclivity for risk-taking. How do you tell if your man’s a psychopath? They’ve got an amazing online game, apparently. German scientists ...