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

What do serial murderers, hardened criminals, and punitive dictators have in common with ruthless business executives who profit from the misfortunes of failed investments or downsizing? In his latest ...

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 ...

Did the ‘Psychopath Test’ Help Send an Innocent Man to His Execution? The case against Robert Roberson, whose execution is scheduled for Oct. 16, is the latest to raise questions about a controversial ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1885, an English psychiatrist published the case of a man called W.B., who had spent much of his life cycling through jail and ...