Researchers examined how traits like narcissism and Machiavellianism influence who seeks power—and how they lead.

A 2026 study from Lennart Freyth and researchers with the Behavioral and Social Sciences Institute, in Vienna, Austria, found ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Psychopaths have different brain structures to the rest of the population, a study has revealed, helping shed new light ...

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Researchers at New York University conducted a study to see if music taste could be an indicator of a person's psychopathy ...

Think of a psychopath, and any number of Hollywood villains might come to mind, from charming killers like Hannibal Lecter to Anton Chigurh, portrayed with chilling menace by Javier Bardem in the film ...

Psychopaths aren't just found in prisons, true-crime documentaries or horror films; some walk among us. In fact, you probably know one. "Everybody knows somebody with psychopathy," Abigail Marsh, a ...

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Despite decades of research into the core traits of psychopathy, substantial disagreement about the structure of the psychopathic personality remains. Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) ...

Living the “fast life” says more about a person than their proclivity for risk-taking. How do you tell if your man’s a psychopath? They’ve got an amazing online game, apparently. German scientists ...

In recent news featuring Russia’s assault on Ukraine, we’ve heard numerous allegations of human rights violations. U.S. Senator Steve Daines visited Kyiv suburbs and observed that there is ...