The public most often associates psychopathy with people who kill, rape, attack, enslave, or commit other serious crimes. Research is hampered by the lack of an assessment tool focused on the corporate/organizational world, an instrument that uses ratings of others to measure psychopathic features in workplace settings. Recently, researchers have focused their attention on the nature and implications of psychopathic characteristics in the workplace. Much like reinventing the wheel, it is therefore difficult to understand how the very defining traits of psychopathy could be assessed without reference to and a focus on antisocial behaviors (Hare, 2003 Hare & Neumann, 2008). Although Cooke and Michie (2001) have contended that antisocial features (the antisocial factor) are best left out of the assessment of psychopathy, traditional clinical conceptualizations of psychopathy are filled with antisociality. The PCL-R consists of 20 rating scale items that measure 4 related factors or dimensions (interpersonal, affective, lifestyle, antisocial, poor behavioral controls, adolescent antisocial behavior, and adult antisocial behavior) that support the construct of psychopathy. The Psychopathy Checklist and its successors remain the most widely used expert-rater devices to assess psychopathy today (Craig et al., 2008). Robert Hare created the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) in 1980 and revised it in 1991 (PCL-R). When it comes to empirical research on psychopathy, psychopathy is most often measured using the psychopathy checklist.
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