psychopath
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He also denied telling her in 2024 that he had been diagnosed as a psychopath.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Too little or no empathy makes you a psychopath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The Apple TV series remake about a psychopath seeking revenge on a lawyer, played this time by Amy Adams, nods to its predecessors while including new twists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Not everyone with psychopathic traits commits crimes, and not every person who commits a crime is a psychopath, but research has consistently linked psychopathy with a higher risk of violent behavior.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
But I can’t see him as a psychopath.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
Which brings me back to psychopaths, who simply can’t see that their actions cause harm or just don’t care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Earlier research had suggested that the striatum may be unusually active in psychopaths, but it was less clear whether the size of this brain region was also involved.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
Historically, we have pathologized people who lack such impulses; they are known as psychopaths, and their qualities have been deemed incompatible with a functioning society.
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2026
That seems to tie into your reference to psychopaths, as well as extreme narcissists.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2025
People exhibiting this purest form of the disorder would become known, in the jargon of psychiatry, as “Cleckley” psychopaths.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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Common Senses: Path ("Feeling")
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Body Language: Psych ("Mind")
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