Sentence examples for psychopathic capacity from inspiring English sources

Now the catastrophe of this last job seems to unlock a psychopathic capacity for extreme brutality.

Since our behavior is crucially guided by feedback processes the question arises whether psychopathic traits affect this capacity and we hypothesize that in particular Fearless Dominance would be associated with impaired feedback processing indicated by reduced FRN amplitudes and reduced behavioral adaptation after negative feedback.

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

For therapists requesting a scientific understanding of psychopathy to tailor their therapies (Salekin et al., 2010), our finding that instructions to empathize can reduce group differences indicates that therapeutic efforts may actually not need to create a capacity for empathy, for such a capacity may already exist (at least in our sample of incarcerated psychopathic offenders).

Psychopathic, Machiavellian misanthropes?

Ten were unambiguously psychopathic.

A psychopathic Chicago gangster.

"They're just psychopathic".

Brady was a psychopathic autodidact.

His hidden past informs his psychopathic present.

A psychiatrist diagnosed him with "psychopathic tendencies".