Ron sends Bob Hare an email requesting an interview; Hare agrees to meet with Ron but only if he registered for a three-day residential course. During the course, Hare taught Ron and others how to identify psychopaths through his checklist. Hare developed the Hare PCL-R checklist in 1975. With the help of experts he, he catergorized the characteristic and behaviors of psycopaths into an organized list.
Which was this: (pg97-98)
1. Glibness/superficial charm
2. Grandiose sense of self-worth
3. Need for stimulation/proness to boredom
4.Pathological lying
5. Conning/ Manipulative
6.Lack of remorse or guil
7. Shallow affect
8.Callous/lack of empathy
9.Parasitic lifestyle
10. Poor behavioral controls
11.Promiscouous sexual behavior
12. Earlybehavior problems
13.Lack of relistic long-term goals
14. Impulsivity
15. Irresponsibility
16. Failure to accepts responsibility for own actions
17. Many short-term marital relationships
18.Juvenile delinquency
19. Revocation of conditional relase
20. Criminal versatility
The class then precedes to look at Case studies to learn how to identify these charactericstics. The Case studies allows Ron identify closer with psychopaths. Ron then starts his own exploration of identifying psychopaths
Critique: This chapter was very interesting. I was able to learn, along with Ron, more about psychopaths and their behavior. The story Hane told about the girl psychopath was terrifying. I never considered that psychopathic behavior can begin early in life. So it is really nerve wreaking to hear about a second year student of college who gets pleasure out of extreme violence. Who knows? She could turn out to be my roomate. :/
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