From Aeon: "Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on? In modern science, ...

Psychopaths might account for only about 1% of the general population, but they account for a disproportionate share of violent crime.

Research confirms that psychopaths are more inclined to lie to get what they want, and that they typically display a striking fearlessness – as if they have ice running through their veins.

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 ...

Would you want a psychopath looking after your pension? Or what about your shares? In a recent talk at the Cambridge Festival of Science, I spoke about the latest research relating to a psychopath’s ...

The term often evokes a mental image of a ruthless criminal or a serial killer. It’s a reasonable stereotype. Between one quarter and one third of convicted murderers are psychopaths, along with ...

New research considers how the financial industry can identify, manage and, if necessary, remove these individuals. Findings from research to help the business world identify destructive 'corporate ...

In the news recently were the results from brain scans of a small cohort of psychopathic offenders. Researchers at Radboud University and the Dutch Institute for Forensic Psychiatry found that the ...

According to author Kevin Dutton, psychopaths have a distinct set of personality characteristics. Pictured is Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho. Photo by: Mary Evans / UNIVERSAL PICTURES / ...