How to spot a psychopath at work (opens in new tab)

The previous article I am speaking of (can't recall) spoke of how psychopaths can be totally emotionless when you describe their crimes to them. They cannot put themselves in the shoes of their victims. One way of getting them to confess was actually running down their achievements, comparing them to a well-known serial killer.

In some cases, this ploy succeeded and the suspect admitted to several murders that the police did not know of , or had not linked to the suspect. The need for attention, or to show off was so great.

The above post seems to refer to sub-clinical psychopaths. Its something we should _not_ be trying to judge - perhaps - we could land up judging normal people as psychopaths, since such methods of judgment _could_be_ error-prone, subjective and may not apply to people from different cultures or upbringing.

That's the nature of the human mind. Everything is highly subjective. Until somebody invents an objective way to diagnose someone as being mentally ill it's what we have to work with.

The audio book version is well done, too.