The "Successful" Psychopath: Adaptive and Subclinical Manifestations of Psychopathy in the General Population.

By Jason R. Hall, S. Benning. 2006

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Are psychopaths and heroes twigs off the same branch? Evidence from college, community, and presidential samples (2013, background): “In general, three main perspectives on ‘successful’ psychopathy exist: subclinical manifestation of the condition, moderated expression of the full condition, and a dual process perspective (Hall & Benning, 2006).”
Triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy: Developmental origins of disinhibition, boldness, and meanness (2009, background): “…constructs represent the key to understanding psychopathy in its varying manifestations: criminal and noncriminal, primary, and secondary (cf. Karpman, 1941; Lykken, 1957, 1995; Skeem et al., 2007), stable and aggressive (Hicks et al., 2004), unsuccessful and successful (Hall & Benning, 2006).”
Psychopathy, Empathy, and Perspective -Taking Ability in a Community Sample: Implications for the Successful Psychopathy Concept (2006, background): “…and clinicians alike have expressed the need for the exploration of psychopathy in community samples (DeMatteo, Heilbrun, & Marczyk, 2005; Hall & Benning, 2006; Salekin, Trobst, & Krioukova, 2001; Skeem, Poythress, Edens, Lilienfeld, & Cale, 2003; Widom, 1977) because they are presumably…”
Psychopathy in the workplace: The knowns and unknowns (2013, background): “The controversial construct of successful psychopathy (Lilienfeld, 1998; Widom, 1977) can be understood within one of three competing models: subclinical manifestation,moderated expression, and a dual process perspective (Hall & Benning, 2006).”
Successful Psychopaths: Are They Unethical Decision-Makers and Why? (2012, background): “Although exactly what constitutes successful psychopathy is still considered a subject of debate (Hall and Benning, 2006), it is clear that the construct of psychopathy comprises both potentially adaptive and maladaptive components.”
Upsides to Dark and Downsides to Bright Personality: A Multidomain Review and Future Research Agenda (2018, background): “Hall and Benning (2006) speak of “successful psychopaths” and how they reach top leadership positions.”
Psychopathy, reactive aggression, and precarious proclamations: A review of behavioral, cognitive, and biological research. (2011, background): “…(1958), much like Cleckley, believed that psychopathy was prevalent among the general public regardless of criminality and even speculated that some psychopaths might make highly successful community leaders (for a review of adaptive manifestations of psychopathy, see Hall & Benning, 2006).”
The Dark Triad personality: Attractiveness to women (2014, background): “…hard-headedness and an inclination to Please cite this article in press as: Carter, G. L., et al. The Dark Triad personali http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.08.021 risk-take – all accurate descriptors of Dark Triad men; all attractive to women (Bassett & Moss, 2004; Hall & Benning, 2006).”
The Dark Triad of Personality: A 10 Year Review (2013, background): “The subsequent introduction of a number of construct-based questionnaires culminated in reviews by Hall and Benning (2006) as well as Lebreton et al. (2006).”
Investigating associations between empathy, morality and psychopathic personality traits in the general population (2012, result): “Findings from these studies often mirror those observed in clinical/forensic samples (Benning, Patrick, & Iacono, 2005; Hall & Benning, 2006), further strengthening the view that there are psychopathy.”
Psychopathy is the Unified Theory of Crime (2009, unknown): “…DiCicco, & Duros, 2004; Vaughn & Howard, 2005b), among civil psychiatric patients (Silver, Mulvey, & Monahan, 1999) and foster-care youth (Vaughn, Litschge, DeLisi, Beaver, & McMillen, 2008), and is applicable subclinically to the general population (Babiak & Hare, 2006; Hall & Benning, 2006).”
A Cybernetic Theory of Psychopathology (2018, background): “Nonetheless, we recognize the possibility of what has been called “the successful psychopath,” someone who is competent but also sufficiently callous as to have little to no goal of affiliating with other people or preventing their suffering (Hall & Benning, 2006).”