Unveiling the Real Evil Genius Creative people are better at rationalizing small ethical lapses that can spiral out of control By Ingrid Wickelgren | Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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In 1940 Action Comics introduced a brilliant supervillain named Lex Luthor who tries to kill Superman to advance his plot to rule the world. These days news articles often portray Bernard Madoff as an “evil genius” because of his creative Ponzi scheme...

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Le déséquilibre psychologique est il toujours handicapant?

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Seeking a Chief Exec with the Right Stuff?: Look for a Touch of Psychopathy An Emory University psychologist recounts why "fearless dominance," a personality trait used to screen for psychopaths, may be a quality to consider in our next chief executive...

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An Interview with a Psychopath Kevin Dutton pits his own mind against that of a psychopath By Kevin Dutton

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This month's issue of Scientific American features an excerpt from Kevin Dutton's new book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths (Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2012). In the excerpt, Dutton, a research psychologist at the Calleva Research...

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What Psychopaths Teach Us about How to Succeed. We can learn a lot from psychopaths. Certain aspects of their personalities and intellect are often hallmarks of success By Kevin Dutton

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Adapted from The Wisdom of Psychopaths, by Kevin Dutton, by arrangement withScientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC (US), Doubleday Canada (Canada), Heinemann (UK), Record (Brazil), DTV (Germany), De Bezige Bij (Netherlands), NHK (Japan), Miraebook...

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Attente auto réalisatrice - le pouvoir de notre système central de gestion

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How the Power of Expectations Can Allow You to ‘Bend Reality’ Journalist Chris Berdik explains the many ways that what is expected shapes what happens By Gareth Cook | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Chris Berdik, a science journalist and former staff editor...

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What Psychopaths Teach Us about How to Succeed

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We can learn a lot from psychopaths. Certain aspects of their personalities and intellect are often hallmarks of success By Kevin Dutton | Friday, October 12, 2012 | 10 Adapted from The Wisdom of Psychopaths, by Kevin Dutton, by arrangement withScientific...

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Roots of Post-Trauma Resilience Sought in Genetics and Brain Changes

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Investigations of genetic variants and how the body and brain change during recovery might offer insights into why some people never recover from trauma By Virginia Hughes and Nature magazine | Thursday, October 11, 2012 She pleaded with him to let her...

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An Interview with a Psychopath

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This month's issue of Scientific American features an excerpt from Kevin Dutton's new book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths (Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2012). In the excerpt, Dutton, a research psychologist at the Calleva Research...

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Of the Creation Persuasion By Kyle Hill

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The Earth is flat. A full moon leads to more crime. Humans were created less than 10,000 years ago. If you made your way through even the most general of science educations, the above statements should strike you as suspect. Having a Copernican worldview...

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The Connectome Debate: Is Mapping the Mind of a Worm Worth It? Scientists have mapped a tiny roundworm's entire nervous system. Did it teach them anything about its behavior? By Ferris Jabr

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In the 1970s biologist Sydney Brenner and his colleagues began preserving tiny hermaphroditic roundworms known as Caenorhabditis elegans in agar and osmium fixative, slicing up their bodies like pepperoni and photographing their cells through a powerful...

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