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Can a test really tell who’s dangerous? (opens in a new tab)
A U of T study questions the reliability of a psychological assessment that has been widely used in Canadian courtrooms
Psychopaths don’t exist, scientist claims (opens in a new tab)
Murderous psychopaths might make great movie villains, but research now suggests that these emotionless killers simply don
No country for Chigurh, Lecter (opens in a new tab)
Norman Bates in Psycho, Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. We owe our understanding and dread of ‘psychopaths’ to these bad men. But Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen,...
This made-in-Canada ‘psychopath test’ doesn’t work and has no place in courts, major study finds (opens in a new tab)
“We should probably consider a complete moratorium on these types of assessments,” says U of T researcher Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen.
Is the Psychopathy Checklist unsuitable for court? (opens in a new tab)
A study finds flaws in the use of scores from psychopathy tests in court, but fails to address the influence on juries of cultural portrayals of psychopathy.
Psychopathy test used in Canadian courts unreliable, prone to bias: Study (opens in a new tab)
A test often used to evaluate psychopathy in Canadian criminal cases is out of date and unreliable, research from the University of Toronto Mississauga suggests, raising questions about the validity of the tool.The study led by Rasmus…
‘An industrial scale of misapplication’: UTM research questions use of psych assessments in courts (opens in a new tab)
A test often used to evaluate psychopathy in Canadian criminal cases is out of date and unreliable, research from the University of Toronto Mississauga suggests, raising questions about the validity of the tool.The study led by Rasmus…
Is there such a thing as a psychopath? (opens in a new tab)
Scholar examines the science and myths around psychopathy tests—and their impact on the criminal justice system
Interview on a serial killer case in Winnipeg
The Hare Psychopathy Checklist: A Clinical Construct Whose Time Has Passed? (opens in a new tab)
BACKGROUND: The clinical construct of psychopathy refers to a personality disorder characterized by various antisocial personality traits and behaviors. The ...
Forensic psychology
Forensic epistemology
Controversy at Philosophical Psychology leads to editor’s resignation (opens in a new tab)
In December 2019, the journal Philosophical Psychology published an article calling for scholars to take more seriously genetics-based approaches to research on race and intelligence. Yesterday, an editor […]
Outdated understanding of psychopathy impairs treatment, contributes to stigma: U of T researcher (opens in a new tab)
Psychopathy is one of the most widely recognized psychiatric diagnoses in popular culture, but a University of Toronto researcher says it’s time to reconsider what we think we know about the condition. “A lot of what people understand…
Revisiting ‘The Psychopath Test’: New research gives diagnosis a failing grade (opens in a new tab)
Charismatic, callous, criminal—the very mention of the word “psychopath” calls to mind fictional and real-life monsters like Hannibal Lecter, Charles Manson or a predatory executive in a pinstriped suit. Psychopathy is one of the most…
Con artists and biases
Buyer beware: How to protect yourself from fraud (opens in a new tab)
Incidents of fraud in Canada are up nearly 20 per cent from 2017. While there is no one profile for scammers, experts say people can protect themselves by doing
Alumni conversation
Re-thinking democracy (in Danish)
Privacy (in Danish)
Edward Snowden, the NSA, and surveillance (in Danish)
Op-eds and commentary
There are no psychopaths (opens in a new tab)
Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?
What we still get wrong about psychopaths (opens in a new tab)
Many scientists portray psychopathy as a brain disorder, despite a lack of evidence
The neuroscience of psychopathy has a spin problem (opens in a new tab)
If there is no clear evidence of brain abnormalities in psychopathic persons, why do so many scientists keep portraying psychopathy as a neurodevelopmental disorder?
So, is psychopathy simply a big juicy nothingburger? Commentary on Heidi Maibom’s “What can philosophers learn from psychopathy?”
The lazy format of dogmatism (in danish)
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