As an expert on personality disorders, people often ask me about psychopathy. It seems everybody has had an ex, a boss, a neighbour or a relative who they suspect has traits of it. People are curious ...

If you watch and listen to some psychopaths long enough, you may see an animated person with a flamboyant style. You might even notice theatrical facial expressions and enthralling hand gestures. It ...

Psychopaths generally do not feel emotions and lack a conscience, while sociopaths are impulsive and often act without thinking. The causes of sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies are complex, and ...

When you start to notice them, psychopaths seem to be everywhere. This is especially true of people in powerful places. By one estimate, as many as 20% of business leaders have "clinically relevant ...

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 ...

Psychopathy has long been associated with murderers, notorious criminals, and the gripping true crime stories that dominate Netflix documentaries. But our recent research is showing they have a ...

On any given day, millions of Americans curl up to watch their favorite crime shows. Whether it is “FBI” on CBS, “Dexter” on Showtime, “Mindhunter” on Netflix, “Killing Eve” on BBC, reruns of “Law & ...

This past Christmas I took a week off work to visit family. How did I spend much of that time? Reading a memoir by a diagnosed psychopath. Her story was alien, unsettling, and exciting. I couldn’t put ...

If you were to think of a famous serial killer or the subject of a true crime documentary, the chances are that a male character will come to mind – and for a good reason. Most criminals are male – ...

As an expert on personality disorders, people often ask me about psychopathy. It seems everybody has had an ex, a boss, a neighbor or a relative who they suspect has traits of it. People are curious ...