Robert D. Hare

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word…

— Robert D. Hare

Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond…

— Robert D. Hare

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population.…

— Robert D. Hare

Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward…

— Robert D. Hare

A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a…

— Robert D. Hare

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you…

— Robert D. Hare

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only…

— Robert D. Hare

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken…

— Robert D. Hare

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple…

— Robert D. Hare

For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by…

— Robert D. Hare

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

— Robert D. Hare

Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as…

— Robert D. Hare

“He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit…

— Robert D. Hare

Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are…

— Robert D. Hare

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

— Robert D. Hare

“The most debilitating characteristic of even the most well-behaved psychopath is the inability to form a workable team.”

— Robert D. Hare

“Good people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing things they themselves are incapable of doing; usually they accept the undramatic…

— Robert D. Hare

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

— Robert D. Hare