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Considerable progress has been made in recent years in delineating the concept of psychopathy, the structure of psychopathic traits, and associated psychopathology. Psychopathy has also been shown to be a useful clinical and forensic concept. This progress owes much to the development of a reliable assessment procedure — the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R; Hare, 1991), that is easily administered in a variety of settings. The evidence also suggests that psychopathy as assessed using the PCL-R is not an homogeneous entity but consists of two components, an interpersonal component characterized by such traits as disregard for others, lack of empathy, and tendencies toward grandiosity, and a behavioral component involving antisocial behaviors (Harpur, Hakstian, & Hare, 1988).
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Livesley, W.J. (1998). The Phenotypic and Genotypic Structure of Psychopathic Traits. In: Cooke, D.J., Forth, A.E., Hare, R.D. (eds) Psychopathy: Theory, Research and Implications for Society. NATO ASI Series, vol 88. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3965-6_4
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