“If I wasn’t studying psychopaths in prison, I’d do it at the stock exchange.”
~Dr. Robert Hare

This great quote reminded me of a recent study that found Wall Street employees were 10x more likely to be clinical psychopaths than the rest of the populace.  True story; more on that HERE.

Hervery M. Cleckley defined several traits of a psychopath in his 1941 book Mask of Sanity:

• Superficial charm and average intelligence.
• Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking.
• Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations.
• Unreliability.
• Untruthfulness and insincerity.
• Lack of remorse or shame.
• Antisocial behavior without apparent compunction.
• Poor judgement and failure to learn from experience.
• Pathological egocentricity and incapacity to love.
• General poverty in major affective reactions.
• Specific loss of insight.
• Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations.
• Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink, and sometimes without.
• Suicide threats rarely carried out.
• Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated.
• Failure to follow any life plan.

Then my next thought was Mitt Romney.  Go figure.

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