psychopathy

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However, psychopathy likely reflects a broader pattern of brain differences involving motivation, emotional processing, impulse control, and social behavior.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2026

The Journal of Psychiatric Research findings added evidence that psychopathy is not shaped only by social and environmental experiences.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2026

“You get people who are verging on psychopathy and you get people who are just troubled.”

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2025

Like with the psychopathy scale: It's a continuous scale with no sharp cutoff point, but you can see the different life trajectories.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2025

Dealing with IBSEN'S Ghosts at the Kingsway Theatre, the critic of a halfpenny morning paper refers to it as a "medley of weird psychopathy and symbolism."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 by Various