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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...