Tag: Psychopathy

In the classic nature vs nurture debate, it appears there needs to be a genetic, physical, and social combination to result in antisocial personality disorder.

Some professionals have questioned whether this was the driving force behind the murderous behaviors of Ted Bundy.

Adolescence is a time of dramatic psychosocial change and relative to adults, adolescent psychopathy scores are not as stable.

Series Three of HLN's How It Really Happened with Hill Harper continues its in-depth examination of the Ted Bundy case. Using archived footage from CNN and featuring new interviews, these ...

Healthcare professionals are trained to heal but for some, termed medical serial killers, this can lead to a deadly game of multiple murder.

A review of Richard Bruns first-hand account of his friendship with a psychopath and how he finally summoned the courage to report him to the authorities and end Charles Schmid's ...

New research examining the psychopathic brain and links to violence refocuses attention from lack of emotion to decision-making and reward networks.

Psychopaths are all around us so a famous psychologist says. Jon Ronson in this acclaimed book ‘The Psychopath Test’ uncovers the dark and seedy side of society, the one nobody ...

Psychological research has been making some headway in discovering the key traits and characteristics common in serial killers.

Take a look at the research into the brains of serial killers including the statistics and the motivations behind their killing.

Serial killer Ted Bundy was a handsome and charming man at first glance, but he was a man who harboured dark thoughts and sinister intentions. A man who just before ...

Of the current uses of psychiatry in legal settings, the claim that psychopaths can be identified through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is among the most worrisome.