As I am sure many people have, I have occasionally thought that someone was truly “psycho”, but never before did I take those thoughts seriously or pursue them further. However, there have been times when I have been tempted to do so, and recently that temptation overcame my reluctance to pursue the thought further. In particular, a concern about psychopathy (or sociopathy) of one or more individuals created an itch in my brain that simply had to be scratched. So scratch that itch I did; and here’s what turned up.<\/p>\n
I was reading about the behavior of a certain individual (one of the aforementioned individuals) and the word psychopath was used to describe that person’s personality. When I went researching that word, I ran across a simple test that is used by many psychologists and psychiatrists to make initial assessments of psychopathic personalities. The test, created by Canadian psychologist Robert D. Hare1<\/sup><\/a>, consists of 20 simple behavioral observations that are easy for the layman to understand and assess their applicability to anyone whose behavior they can observe.<\/p>\n Now, of course, any test applied by a layman to any individual is totally unprofessional and meaningless; but it is amusing and it can be insightful if performed in a serious manner. Having applied the test to the particular person that created the itch in by cerebrum I came up with a total score of 35 (out of a possible 40 points), which was substantially above the 30 point threshold for classifying someone as a psychopath. What’s more, my score correlated with the score obtained by more than one professional psychologist who applied the same test to the same individual. (So now I feel vindicated.)<\/p>\n So, having beaten around the bush long enough, I’ll cut to the chase. Click here<\/a> to bring up the test to see for yourself. For fun, apply the test to yourself, any of your friends, family, co-workers, boss or anyone else you have knowledge about their behavior. (I find it especially interesting to apply the test to people in high places.) A table is provided at the end of the test to place your assessment scores and the total.<\/p>\n Go ahead, try it.<\/p>\n PS If anyone follows up and applies the test to anyone in particular, I would be interested in the results. You can send the results to me in this email<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1<\/sup> Wikipedia – https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychopathy_Checklist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I am sure many people have, I have occasionally thought that someone was truly “psycho”, but never before did I take those thoughts seriously or pursue them further. However, there have been times when I have been tempted to do so, and recently that temptation overcame my reluctance to pursue the thought further. In … Continue reading Have you ever thought someone was really “psycho”?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musingsofamaverick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musingsofamaverick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musingsofamaverick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musingsofamaverick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musingsofamaverick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/musingsofamaverick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/musingsofamaverick.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musingsofamaverick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musingsofamaverick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musingsofamaverick.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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