The word psychopath conjures images of skulking figures and dark alleys. The media equate psychopaths with infamous serial killers like Ted Bundy and Robert Picton. But psychopaths and psychopathy are ...

The book Wisdom of Psychopaths by University of Oxford psychologist Kevin Dutton has received a lot of attention from the media (and has been reviewed in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and ...

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 / ...

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 ...

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton; Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 261 pages ($26). The kinship of genius and ...

One of the most enduring ideas about crime — and violence more broadly — is that a lot of it is committed by people we call “psychopaths.” If you didn’t grow up with procedurals like “Law & Order: SVU ...

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 ...

Psychopaths might account for only about 1% of the general population, but they account for a disproportionate share of violent crime. Distinct from other conditions like sociopathy and antisocial ...