"The term sociopath is sometimes used to signify that origin of anti-social behavior. Now we know it's a lot more complicated." ...

A new study has found that psychopaths show structural changes in particular areas of the brain that deal with things like impulse control and emotional regulation. This improved understanding may ...

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 ...

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, ...

A recent study suggests that high psychopathic traits are linked to reduced thickness in brain regions responsible for processing emotions. This neural pattern appears consistently, regardless of a ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered what really separates a cold-blooded psychopath from the average person. A team from the University of Pennsylvania has uncovered stark differences in brain structure that ...

A psychological assessment test often used to evaluate psychopathy in Canadian criminal cases is unreliable and prone to unconscious bias on the part of expert witnesses, according to research from ...