What Makes a Psychopath? Science May Have the Answer

Psychopathic personality traits are associated with experimentally induced approach and appraisal of fear-evoking stimuli indicating fear enjoyment

The extent to which deficits in the perception and experience of fear contribute to psychopathic symptoms is an ongoing matter of debate. Traditional theories emphasize diminished threat processing as the core fear deficit in psychopathic individuals, whereas recent approaches, such as the fear enjoyment hypothesis (FEH), propose that anomalies in the subjective experience of fear are related to interpersonal-affective psychopathic traits. In or…

'I'm a psychopath and three traits could show if you are too'

A woman who claims to be a "psychopath" has shared some of the most common traits that could indicate that you also have a similar personality disorder

What Makes a Psychopath? Science May Have the Answer

Researchers have found that the way our brains are wired can affect how much empathy we feel toward others—a key measuring stick of good and evil.

Psychopaths have 'distinctly different' brains to other people, study finds - The Mirror

A major study has found that psychopaths have markedly different brain structures to the rest of the population, offering fresh insight into one of the darkest corners of human psychology

Psychopaths have a VERY different brain size to the rest

Psychopaths have a VERY different brain size to the rest