Psychopathic Traits are assessed with the PCL-R. The following are two factors of the PCL-R. It’s scored out of 40. The higher your scores on the overall items, the higher your psychopathy is:
Factor 1 (Interpersonal/Affective)
- · Glibness/superficial charm
- · Grandiose sense of self-worth
- · Pathological lying (duping delight; likes messing with people)
- · Conning/manipulative
- · Lack of remorse/guilt (reduced range of emotion with the exception of anger)
- · Failure to accept responsibility
Factor 2 (Lifestyle)
- · Need for stimulation
- · Parasitic lifestyle (likes to use other people for money)
- · Poor behavioral controls (inability to control anger)
- · Early behavioral problems
- · Lack of realistic long-term plans (If you ask them where they see themselves in 5 years, psychopaths will not give a clear answer; they might even say something like I will be a lawyer when it’s not even true)
- · Impulsivity
- · Irresponsibility
- · Juvenile delinquency
- · Revocation of conditional release (they will not stick to the conditions)
+ promiscuity, many short term relationships (if you ask them how many sexual partners they have had, they will say over 100) , criminal versatility (involved in many different types of crime and not just one specific type)
Here’s a documentary video about Theodore Robert ”Ted“ Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) who was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women during the 1970s, and possibly earlier
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eydw_SvJRko (part 1/5)
Do you think he matches the traits of a psychopath?
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