Psychopaths in Life

Gas-lighting - the deliberate attempt to invalidate and erode another person's perception of reality by constantly questioning or undermining it - is now a pretty well known term. But it can appear...

We've already covered extensively on this blog how damaging psychopaths are to a company if they allow them in, and then tolerate them. The bottom line is despite superficial appearances, these are...

Psychopaths are the worst types of managers you can have, with a provocative, reaction seeking style and an obsession with power and control over others that can be very oppressive to work under. How...

A lot is written about psychopaths in personal relationships, with the damage they cause now well documented. But what about in workplaces? What happens when a company hires, and then tolerates (even...

Many of us still tend to be stuck in the stereotype of the psychopath as the violent serial killer, but psychopathy is actually most often measured in terms of a series of personality traits or...

We all know what simple lying is – saying something which isn’t true, but knowing this isn’t always enough in today’s world. Lying and deception can sometimes take on more subtler forms, one...

Some links in this articles are affiliate links The frightening but also entertaining Hannibal Lecter character played by Anthony Hopkins in the now famous Silence of The Lambs and Hannibal Films...

“Our default understanding of humanity is going be that everybody has some good in them. The research that Dr Robert Hare and Dr Martha Stout have done have really turned that around to say that 4%...