I recently watched the Netflix documentary “Three Identical Strangers.” Without too much of a spoiler alert, triplets who were separated at birth come acros...

In lectures on Personality Disorder and on Romantic Relationships, people are intrigued by the research finding that women are drawn towards psychopathic me...

People with psychopathic traits are predisposed toward antisocial behavior that can result in "unsuccessful" outcomes such as incarceration. However, many in...

Mindfulness can be seen as a panacea for all things these these days. However, it needs to be subjected to more rigorous study in order to ascertain what it...

The expression of many genes that have previously been associated with autism is abnormal also in violent psychopathy, a new study shows. The researchers use...

Individuals with many different psychiatric disorders have a higher tendency to choose smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards, a study led b...

A key feature of high flyers is the personality trait of conscientiousness. These individuals are focused, hard working, organised and invest themselves in t...

Is there such a thing as an evil personality type? This is a challenging question for many in the field. By and large, people who are drawn to the field of ...

A study published in the August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP) reports on a group of boys diagn...

Purdue University researchers think the gap between a psychologists' diagnosis and a patient's self-evaluation might not be as extreme as previously perceive...

Anyone who has heard me lecture or conduct training on neuroscience will know that I have always emphasized a little regarded region of the brain called the ...

I have always felt that psychopaths make good employees. Whilst they will never be team players, they are single minded, do not get detracted from their goa...

I have become increasingly interested in how people respond to moral dilemmas and what this reveals about the brain. In everyday life, I notice that some pe...

When brain lesions occur within the brain network responsible for morality and value-based decision-making, they can predispose a person toward criminal beha...

Callous-unemotional traits have been linked to deficits in development of the conscience and of empathy. Children and adolescents react less to negative stim...

More intriguing research on laughter. As I have written in previous posts, people are often struck by descriptions of laughter as a form of social bonding a...