Popular culture exploits a loose notion of psychopaths as remorseless thugs with intent to harm the rest of us. It’s difficult to get past this, but most so-called psychopaths have never been formally ...

A psychological assessment test often used to evaluate psychopathy in Canadian criminal cases is unreliable and prone to unconscious bias on the part of expert witnesses, according to research from ...

If someone asked you to imagine a psychopath, who would you picture? Many of us might conjure an image of a violent criminal who will do anything without remorse to get what they want. After all, ...

In a recent episode of the BBC Bad People podcast, journalist Amber Haque and I cover the dark and intriguing case of Steven Grieveson. Nicknamed, the "Sunderland Strangler”. Grieveson stood in the ...

A psychological assessment test often used to evaluate psychopathy in Canadian criminal cases is unreliable and prone to unconscious bias on the part of expert witnesses, according to research from ...

PSYCHOPATH — a descriptive word that conjures images of highly intelligent, devious and conniving criminals with disconcerting tendencies inclusive of low empathy and remorse, grandiosity, impulsivity ...