Review of Without conscience: The disturbing world of the psychopaths among us.

Wormith, Stephen

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“…He has developed a means of identifying psychopaths; the ''Psychopathy Checklist Revised'' (PCL-R), for use in clinical psychiatry and psychology (Hare, 1991). This checklist has been adopted worldwide as the standard reference for researchers and clinicians to assess psychopathy and this is often described as being the gold standard measure for the identification of psychopaths in clinical settings (Mahmut et al, 2007;Molto et al, 2000;Wormith, 2000). Hare says that a subset of his checklist caters for identifying Corporate Psychopaths: they are glib and superficially charming, have a grandiose sense of self-worth, are pathological liars, good at conning and manipulating others, have no remorse about harming others; are emotionally shallow, calculating and cold; callous and lacking in empathy and they fail to take responsibility for their own actions.…”

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The Influence of Corporate Psychopaths on Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Commitment to Employees

Boddy¹,

2010

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The Influence of Corporate Psychopaths on Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Commitment to Employees

Boddy¹,

2010

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“…However Hare's is the most commonly used method (McCann, 2002) for identifying psychopathy in both research and clinical settings and is the best validated (Lilienfeld and Andrews, 1996; Sandoval et al , 2000) and most reliable (Lynam et al , 1999) measure. This psychopathy checklist has been adopted worldwide (Wormith, 2000; Molto et al , 2000) as the standard reference for researchers and clinicians to assess psychopathy.…”

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The dark side of management decisions: organisational psychopaths

Boddy¹

2006

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“…Effective instruments that make such patterns appealing for those with higher maladaptive psychological orientations might be adapted through interdisciplinary teamwork, with the acknowledgment that high-risk behaviors might themselves become stimulating for some, the psychopaths in the first place. 53 Future studies might explore effective instruments to increase compliance with the preventive measures targeting specific groups of individuals with varying profiles. This requires interdisciplinary work benefiting from neuroscience, psychology, communication sciences, sociology, arts, architecture, engineering, and several branches of medicine among others.…”

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