Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised Case Study

The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) The first psychological disorder to be recognized in the field of psychology was psychopathy, which sometimes is known as sociopathy. Psychopathy is a personality disorder, which refers to individuals who display tendencies of antisocial behavior and traits. Some of the behaviors associated with Psychopathy are grandiosity, egocentricity, deceptiveness, shallow emotions, lack empathy, irresponsibility and impulsivity. They also have the tendency to disobey what is considered to be social norms. Individuals labeled as psychopath normally tends to display low conscientiousness when making decisions, might have either too low or too high level of anxiety. Psychopaths have tough personalities that might come across as aggressive and hostile due to the lack social skills. They are also driven by impulse and in some cases they tend to seek for sensation. Individuals with Psychopathy disorders might exhibit manipulative behaviors and they are often associated with …show more content…
“PCL-R weights the criminal behavior as strongly- if not more strongly than – the interpersonal and affective traits in assessing psychopathy”. This can create a false positive rate due to bias from the psychologist during the assessment. False positives were participants, who score higher than the average PCL-R scores, who never committed a violent crime against someone else, but they displayed other traits that were supposed to be predicted with psychopath. One possibility is that if the individual rating the assessment scores is bias they might score the participant higher than what they should have been rated. According to the author’s report, the false positive rates were between 50 to 75 percent when assessments were conducted in a forensic