Villanelle may be a psychopath, but she doesn’t represent most psychopaths.
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The arrest of former cop Joseph DeAngelo in the Golden State Killer case raises questions about the common occupations of killers and psychopaths. Canada’s Russell Williams was a former military officer.
It’s tempting to think that difficult coworker might be a psychopath, but this just distracts us from the difficult work of making our workplaces better places to be.
While research indicates there are likely to be fewer female psychopaths than male, this may be because their traits are less visible than their male counterparts.
What are fraudsters really like? Are they all psychopaths? To fight fraud we need an accurate picture of who commits these offences.
Some youths find in gangs the love and social standing that’s missing in their home lives.
Claims that gin lovers are more likely to be psychopaths are just another case of science media misreporting - which should be a tonic to any tipplers who were worried by the news.
Put otherwise good people in an environment created by a psychopathic boss and they could end up with ethical blindness.
How do we deal with people whose emotional responses we don’t understand? Demolition does not have the answers.
Tomcat, a play by James Rushbrooke, portrays a dark future where there is no place for neurodiversity. Is this our future?
Recent media coverage of trophy hunting - following the death of the lion Cecil – raises questions about why some people seem to enjoy killing animals for fun.
The psychologist David Lykken once wrote that most violent crime could be prevented by cryogenically freezing all males aged 12 to 28. Although this option might be appealing at times for high school teachers…
In the latest instalment of our series Biology and Blame Micol Seigel poses some important questions about the assumptions behind the legal use of fMRI. Of the current uses of psychiatry in legal settings…
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