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 ...

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can detect signs of psychopathy based on head movements. Using head tracking algorithms, experts in New Mexico found evidence that ...

Does an academic's use of legal threats to stop a critical paper from being published subvert the peer review process, which is fundamental to modern scientific research? A leading psychopathy ...

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 ...

Psychopathy is one of the most widely recognized psychiatric diagnoses in popular culture, but a University of Toronto researcher says it’s time to reconsider what we think we know about the condition ...

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

Medically reviewed by Melissa Bronstein, LICSW Key Takeaways Psychopathy isn't an official diagnosis; however, it's used to describe traits such as a lack of empathy, aggressiveness, and deceitfulness ...

The predominant traits of psychopathy differ between cultures, experts have claimed. When the term “psychopath” is mentioned, a number of famous fictional figures spring to mind - Patrick Bateman, ...