Psychopathy

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Core ingredients of psychopathy: disinhibition, boldness, and meanness.

Triarchic Model

Cleckley’s case histories included examples of “successful psychopaths” who ascended to careers as professors, medical doctors, or businessmen, along with examples of more aimless dysfunctional types.

Tests

• The most widely used instrument for diagnosing psychopathy in correctional and forensic settings is the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R)
• Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) was developed to index personality dispositions embodied within historic conceptions of psychopathy