The concept of psychopathy has elicited attention and scientific study from the medical and
psychiatric communities for over two hundred years. In 1801 Philip Pinel identified a …

The clear conceptualization and measurement of the construct of psychopathy comprised
one of the most important and influential developments in the forensic field in the twentieth …

American psychiatrists and psychologists [1–4]. As Millon and colleagues [4] put
it,''Psychopathy was the first personality disorder to be recognized in psychiatry. The concept …

The current study examined the prevalence and structure of psychopathic traits in females
and males using a very large world sample (N= 33,016, females= 19,183). Psychopathic …

Prior research on psychopathy has primarily focused on the problem in men. Only a few
studies have examined whether psychopathy even exists in women, and if so, how the …

Recent empirical investigations utilizing male prisoners have begun to validate clinical
conceptualizations of primary and secondary psychopathy subtypes. We extended this …

Psychopathy in women has been subject to little systematic investigation; no coherent
conceptualization of the disorder in women exists. Previous research is constrained by the …

Several authors have proposed that antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and histrionic
personality disorder (HPD) are sex-typed manifestations of the same underlying …

Despite a flurry of studies examining psychopathy in women, and the recent release of the
second version of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised manual, there is still little …

Historically, the study of psychopathy in women was all but ignored by psychopathologists
and forensic psychologists. Hare's Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) and its revised version …