Make what you will of this: “Correlates of psychopathic personality traits in community couples,” Claudia Savard, Stéphane Sabourin and Yvan Lussier, Personality and Mental Health, epub March 24, 2011. The authors, at Université Laval, Québec, Canada, and Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada, explain: “there was a direct negative path from secondary psychopathy […]
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Appreciating organizational psychopaths
Psychopathology is a little-publicized branch of science. This monograph in particular received surprisingly little acclaim when it was published: “The Dark Side of Management Decisions: Organisational Psychopaths,” Clive Roland Boddy, Management Decision, vol. 44, no. 10, 2006, pp. 1461–75. [AIR 15:4] (Thanks to Martin Gardiner for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at Middlesex […]
Psychopaths of Wall Street
“I always said that if I wasn’t studying psychopaths in prison, I’d do it at the stock exchange.” So says Robert Hare, professor emeritus from the University of British Columbia and inventor of the Hare Psychopathy Scales, in a September 2008 interview in Fast Company magazine. (Thanks to investigator Kath Meusey for bringing this to […]