People with elevated psychopathic traits tend to find frightening scenes less distressing and more exciting than other people ...

Researchers examined how psychopathic traits relate to emotional responses during frightening situations. The study found ...

A new study suggests that people with stronger psychopathic traits may enjoy frightening situations because they feel ...

Psychopathic people have great difficulty or are even unable to show empathy and regulate their emotions. According to a new study by Matthias Burghart, a Max Planck researcher in Freiburg, this could ...

We often consider psychopathy an inherently bad thing, but it's more nuanced than that. More individuals show less blatant traits in their everyday life, hidden in all kinds of casual phrases and ...

Psychopathy - Distorting a complex problem. From the train tracks of Auschwitz to the crawl space of John Wayne Gacy, human beings are capable of committing the most terrible of deeds. As a society, ...

This past Christmas I took a week off work to visit family. How did I spend much of that time? Reading a memoir by a diagnosed psychopath. Her story was alien, unsettling, and exciting. I couldn’t put ...