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psychopathy

[sahy-kop-uh-thee] / saɪˈkɒp ə θi /


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The authors argued that psychopathy may be better understood through a network-level view of the brain rather than by focusing on one region alone.

From Science Daily • May 10, 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

“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

This identity disturbance, which is at the psychodynamic root of both pathological narcissism and rapacious psychopathy, is all-pervasive.

From Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Vaknin, Samuel




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