Can psychopaths change?
Psychopaths might account for only about 1% of the general population, but they account for a disproportionate share of violent crime.
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Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction: Antisocial Personality Disorder
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People with personality disorders often use language differently—our research reveals how
Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect.
Dec 18, 2025
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Childhood instability accelerates women's sexual strategies, study suggests
California State University, Sacramento, researchers traced how disordered childhood social worlds in women connected to faster life history traits and greater mating effort, with those traits explaining 22.2% of the association ...
Perceived threats behind women's lethal violence
Women who kill are not characterized by psychopathy. Instead, they act primarily because they feel provoked and threatened. At the same time, there is a certain degree of planning among the group of women with a severe mental ...
Jul 23, 2025
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Psychopathic personality is measured with a 1970s checklist—a psychologist says it's time to upgrade
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, we've seen such a character ...
Jun 10, 2025
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Psychopaths experience pain differently, even when their bodies say otherwise
Psychopathy has long been associated with murderers, notorious criminals, and the gripping true crime stories that dominate Netflix documentaries. But our recent research is showing they have a complex relationship with pain ...
Mar 26, 2025
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New therapy reduces reoffending in male offenders with antisocial personality disorder
A new psychological therapy designed by a team of UCL-led researchers has been found to reduce rates of violence and aggression among male offenders with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD).
Feb 18, 2025
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What are emotional tears? The reasons why crying may be a nonverbal signal
All humans cry. Some of our tears are meant to keep our eyes moist and healthy. Others clean out the eye from dust, pollens and other pollutants.
Jan 22, 2025
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New study shows how dementia affects the brain's ability to empathize
Patients with frontotemporal dementia often lack the ability to empathize. A study at Karolinska Institutet has now shown that these patients do not show the same brain activity as healthy individuals when they witness the ...
Dec 3, 2024
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Psychopaths could be suffering from alexithymia or emotional blindness, study finds
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 be because these people ...
Oct 22, 2024
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