Psychopathy checklist5/31/2023 ![]() This is why critical thinking and emotional intelligence are two crucial traits that are useful in spotting psychopaths. It’s all smoke and mirrors to reel people in and throw them off the scent. See further below.Īll this front act from the psychopath though is always glib and superficial when you dig deeper. Extreme hedonism and aversion to suffering.Their life is a constant search for entertainment and stimulation with no deeper reflection. A lack of reflectiveness or introspection. ![]() A desire to constantly speak and be the center of attention (never shuts up).A brazen kind of confidence and brashness.Seemingly having great in depth knowledge on every single topic you can mention (Dig into this further though and you see they only ever have a great two sentence intro to any topic, and never any more than that).Many of these stories will seem outlandish and they will always paint them in a good light. Psychopaths can hold court and be great story tellers. An ability to seem engaged and engaging, to seem interested and interesting.An ability to make it seem you have known them for years, even if they have only just met you.The air can seem to buzz around them sometimes. A superficial warmth, charm or charisma that can easily reel people in.Many psychopaths manage to construct a very convincing facade indeed.įor this reason, many psychopaths will actually come across as very charming and friendly at first, seemingly very personable and easy to get along with. This is a crucial one to look out for – most psychopaths learn that they must put up a front or a facade to conceal their real personality from others – a so called facade of normalcy or “ mask of sanity“. With this in mind, let’s run through each trait in the psychopathy checklist in more detail, giving specific real life examples of how these traits can manifest in both violent and non violent psychopaths we may come across in daily life. Put differently, most psychopaths have learnt that open violence towards others is frowned upon and punished by society, and so instead they seek an outlet for their internal destructiveness by causing psychological and emotional harm to others in the outside world. In fact, most psychopaths have the same basic personality characteristics of these violent killers, but through a combination of education, punishment and self serving purposes, most psychopaths have learnt to curb and more cleverly conceal their destructive behavior, instead causing trouble in more sneaky, covert ways that we cannot so easily detect and punish by law. The serial killer psychopath is the exception rather than the rule for this personality type. Remember, not all psychopaths are violent serial killers – in fact most of them aren’t. See Robert Hare’s Without Conscience in our Books section for some examples of this.īut we don’t just want to make this a dry academic article – we want to try and bring the psychopathy checklist to life a bit more by giving some real world examples of how these traits can manifest in psychopaths you meet in the world every day. Some of the most notorious serial killers in history have scored very high (39 or 40 out of 40) on the Psychopathy Checklist. ![]() ![]() Different countries use different thresholds, but an individual scoring past a score of either 25 or 30 out of 40 qualifies them to be diagnosed with a psychopathic personality. The Psychopathy Checklist was initially developed by Canadian psychopathy expert Dr Robert Hare How the Psychopathy Checklist WorksĪccording to the Hare PCL-R model, prison inmates are scored for each of these traits using a specific questionnaire, with a maximum potential score of 40/40. We will run through each of these individual traits in more detail further below, providing some specific examples of how each trait can manifest in the real world psychopaths. Here are the basic Psychopathy Checklist Traits: You are looking for a clustering of these traits – in other words, most or all of them hanging together within one person, and not just or two, to diagnose psychopathy. Let’s first list the traits that make up the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R), that define the psychopathic personality and distinguish it from other personality traits. There are actually several diagnostic criteria for psychopathy, but probably the most popular and long standing one is the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R), developed several decades ago by psychopathy expert Dr Robert Hare. Many of us still tend to be stuck in the stereotype of the psychopath as the violent serial killer, but psychopathy is actually most often measured in terms of a series of personality traits or characteristics that many more people than just murderers in prison possess. ![]()
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