Sentence examples for psychopathic attributes from inspiring English sources

Dutton draws on a 2005 study that compared the profiles of business leaders with those of hospitalised criminals to reveal that a number of psychopathic attributes were arguably more common in the boardroom than the padded cell: notably superficial charm, egocentricity, independence and restricted focus.

Participants completed the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, Short Form (SRP-SF; Paulhus, Neumann, & Hare, 2015), a 29-item scale designed to measure psychopathic attributes in non-institutionalized samples.

Or is it psychopathic to label people as psychopaths?

Many psychopaths are narcissistic, but not many narcissists are psychopathic.

A musk of enigma lingers around this member at all times like a psychopathic groupie, and while it might seem like the most enviable of boyband roles, its attributes are not assigned but there from birth: the sharp, model-like features, the subtle sartorial suaveness, when set alongside the rest of the band's garish getup; the ability to remain relatively stoney-faced throughout interviews.

In a breakthrough performance as the psychopathic killer in "Primal Fear" (1996), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, he took on the attributes of a person whose experience was in stark contrast to his, and this year he earned another nomination, for his portrayal — in "American History X" — of a tattooed skinhead.

Psychopathic, Machiavellian misanthropes?

Ten were unambiguously psychopathic.

A psychopathic Chicago gangster.

"They're just psychopathic".

[Chicago] Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court of Chicago, 1922.