Senior corporate leaders have been numbered among those who tend to show psychopathic traits. The standard screening test for potential psychopaths is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. Read the list ...

After 26 years in prison, he was due for a parole hearing. In California, before a "lifer" like Dixon appears before the parole board, a state psychologist must first evaluate whether he poses a risk ...

Popular culture exploits a loose notion of psychopaths as remorseless thugs with intent to harm the rest of us. It’s difficult to get past this, but most so-called psychopaths have never been formally ...

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, ...

Robert L. Roberson III was scheduled for execution in Texas on October 16. He won a stay, but the case isn't over. He was convicted of the murder of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis. The ...

A recent study has found that high levels of psychopathic traits are associated with reduced thickness in specific outer ...

Twenty-six years after Robert Dixon Jr. went to prison for acting as an accessory to murder, friends and family swear that he is a new man, one... Can A Test Really Tell Who's A Psychopath? In ...