"The Psychopathy Checklist consists of a set of forms and a manual that describes in detail how to score a subject in twenty categories that define psychopathy. Is he (or, more rarely, she) glib and superficially charming, callous and without empathy?"
What question springs to my mind is, given that these people have something like their 'appreciate other people's emotions' bits of their brains not working properly, why don't we see many female psychopaths?
Off the top of my brain, I can come up with a few likely answers:
1: Female 'psychopaths' don't exhibit the same sorts of criminal behavior that male psychopaths do.
2: Females are less susceptible to being a 'psychopath'
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"The Psychopathy Checklist consists of a set of forms and a manual that describes in detail how to score a subject in twenty categories that define psychopathy. Is he (or, more rarely, she) glib and superficially charming, callous and without empathy?"
What question springs to my mind is, given that these people have something like their 'appreciate other people's emotions' bits of their brains not working properly, why don't we see many female psychopaths?
Off the top of my brain, I can come up with a few likely answers: 1: Female 'psychopaths' don't exhibit the same sorts of criminal behavior that male psychopaths do. 2: Females are less susceptible to being a 'psychopath'
They are the same (if you read hare's books), but it seems that women are more likely to be diagnosed as Histrionic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder