id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_feipw7vizzg2bocvs6z7tjg2ee Zdenka Brzović The Kindness of Psychopaths 2017 24 .pdf application/pdf 12158 1068 49 In recent decades, we are witnessing an increasing interest in the scientific study of psychopathy (Blair, Mitchell, and Blair 2005; Patrick 2006; Glenn and Raine psychopathy might be a natural kind on the homeostatic property cluster (HPC) and the We examine the claim that psychopathy is a syndrome comprised of highly correlated traits and argue that, despite there being studies indicating that psychopathic traits significantly correlate, there is insufficient evidence that they We examine three options: (1) revising the category of psychopathy; (2) eliminating it; or (3) abandoning the cluster approach to natural kinds. The category of psychopathy is at least pragmatically important because it provides a framework for clinical and forensic research. we indicate how treating psychopathy as a pragmatic kind can account for its status at the In our case, if psychopathy is a natural kind, its measurable behavioural, affective and interpersonal traits We examined whether psychopathy can be considered a natural kind on the cluster ./cache/work_feipw7vizzg2bocvs6z7tjg2ee.pdf ./txt/work_feipw7vizzg2bocvs6z7tjg2ee.txt