What is a Psychopath?

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Psycho bosses on the loose
You'd recognise a psychopath if you were unlucky enough to come across one, wouldn't you? Don't be so sure. The media may portray the psychopath as a crazed serial killer - the stuff of nightmares and horror films - but the reality is chillingly different.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4149556,00.html

Psychopaths really feel no fear
Aug. 17, 2001 -- Researchers measured emotional arousal in 25 psychopaths and 18 borderline personalities from two high-security forensic treatment facilities in an attempt to understand response to pleasant and unpleasant stimuli.
http://www.mindful-things.com/psych_news_archive/psych_news_psychopathy.html

Seeing Evil
(CBS) Dr. Park Dietz has seen up close some of the most brutal criminals, from Susan Smith, who drowned her babies, to the Menendez brothers who murdered their parents and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
And if he's learned anything from being involved in such cases, it's that evil can be found almost anywhere, even in the office next door.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/12/60II/main263918.shtml
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