Corporations: Empathy–Devoid Psychopaths

Abstract

In a recent interview with Jon Ronson for his book The Psychopath Test, Canadian psychologist Robert Hare, the world’s foremost expert on psychopaths and designer of the standard checklist (Hare PCL-R) for diagnosing them, declared, “I should never have done all my research in prisons. I should have spent my time inside the Stock Exchange as well.” “Really?” questioned Ronson. “But surely stock-market psychopaths can’t be as bad as serial killer psychopaths.” Hare responded, “Serial killers ruin families. Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.”