It’s the opposite of a “feel-good” moment. While hugs might seem like a display of affection, psychopaths use embraces and other forms of physical contact to control their partners, per an unsettling new study published in Current Psychology. “Not all forms of touch are well-intentioned,” study author Richard Mattson, professor of psychology at Binghamton University … Read more
Living the “fast life” says more about a person than their proclivity for risk-taking. How do you tell if your man’s a psychopath? They’ve got an amazing online game, apparently. German scientists have revealed that those who have a high hookup rate on dating apps are more likely to be psychopaths. The team asked nearly … Read more
As it turns out, our personalities are, in fact, shaped by the environments we grow up in, and Nevada, New York, South Dakota, and Texas contain the highest percentages of those in possession of “dark personality traits.” A recent study conducted by Ingo Zettler, Lau Lilleholt, Benjamin E. Hilbig, Morten Moshagen, and Martina Bader at … Read more
“Misery” loves company. Research suggests that male psychopaths outnumber female psychopaths by around 6 to 1, but a UK professor is claiming the ratio is actually about 1.2 to 1 — up to five times higher. Dr. Clive Boddy, an Anglia Ruskin University professor who specializes in corporate psychopathy, argues that female psychopaths are flying … Read more
Are you a stone-cold psychopath? The answer could be right in your hands. Researchers in Canada have analyzed the finger lengths of volunteers with clinically diagnosed psychiatric issues to determine whether psychopathy is “biologically rooted.” The team found that those whose index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers are more likely to have a … Read more
Taylor Swift’s rabid fans need to calm down. Hundreds of Swifties swarmed the songstress on Friday evening as she left a restaurant on Long Beach Island in New Jersey. The pop superstar purportedly dined with A-list pals for Jack Antonoff’s rehearsal dinner ahead of his Saturday wedding to Margaret Qualley. Word got around that Swift … Read more
The Napoleon complex has been scientifically proven. New research published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences suggests that people who are relatively short and unhappy about it may engage in antagonistic behaviors in an attempt to offset their height disadvantage. The researchers used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a crowd-sourcing site, to recruit 367 adults, a … Read more
Winnie the Pooh and Piglet brutally murder 11 people … is a sentence I never thought I’d write. But that’s what goes down in the sicko indie horror film “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey,” which played theaters for one night only on Wednesday. And, believe you me, one night is enough. How has the 100 Acre … Read more