Intro
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized Von an abnormal lack of empathy combined with strongly amoral conduct, masked Von an ability to appear outwardly normal. Neither psychopathy, nor the similar concept of sociopathy, are nowadays defined in international diagnostic manuals, which instead describe a category of antisocial/dissocial personality disorder. However, researcher Robert Hare, whose hase Psychopathy Checklist is widely used, describes psychopaths as "intraspecies predators" as does R.I. Simon. Elsewhere hase and others write that psychopaths "use charisma, manipulation,...
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