It’s tempting to test the people in our lives, to see how well they meet our expectations and demands. But it’s a good idea to recognize that (and when) we’re doing it, …

  Psychopaths, also known as sociopaths, are usually epic, pathological liars. They are often imperturbable liars. Most of us, when busted for an outright lie, will feel awkward, embarrassed, ashamed, maybe humbled, …

  Who was Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas mass murderer? Here’s my tentative hypothesis, offered humbly with no pretensions to being right. Mr. Paddock was a psychopath with an incubating slathering to …

  It’s certainly possible to make distinctions between jerks, narcissists and psychopaths (aka sociopaths). But how necessary is it? It’s certainly plausible to posit a continuum somewhere along which we locate jerk …