https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/07/when-madness-pays-off/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 11:10:15 -0400<![CDATA[&#8220;Psychopathy&#8221; is a spectrum personality disorder characterized by callousness, antisocial behavior, superficial charm, narcissism, grandiosity, a sense of entitlement, poor impulse control, and a lack of empathy or remorse. Popular culture invariably associates psychopathy with serial killers like Ted Bundy, who, after raping and murdering numerous women in the 1970s, boasted that &#8220;I&#8217;m the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you&#8217;ll ever meet.&#8221; Yet a slate of publications on psychopathy over the past two decades—from Robert Hare&#8217;s path-breaking 1993 book &#8220;Without Conscience&#8221; to Simon Baron Cohen&#8217;s 2011 &#8220;The Science of Evil&#8221;—reveals that about 1% to 3% of men in the general population could be classified as psychopaths. That is more than four million people in the United States alone, and they aren&#8217;t all potential Ted Bundys.]]>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:45:02 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/07/when-madness-pays-off-n97257