Gaul Atreides (@gaulatreides)

"Female psychopaths are up to five times more common than previously thought, according to an expert who will present his work at the Cambridge Festival later this month. Current scientific evidence suggests that male psychopaths outnumber females by around 6:1. However, expert in corporate psychopathy, Dr Clive Boddy of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), argues that studies may be failing to identify female psychopaths because they are largely based around profiles of criminal and male psychopaths. During his talk at ARU’s Cambridge campus on Saturday, 16 March, Dr Boddy will argue that the characteristics of female psychopaths differ from males and that gender bias plays a role in the under-reporting, with society ignoring what people perceive to be male traits when they are displayed by women. [...] Referencing research into corporate psychopaths and how they operate in high-achieving roles in the workplace, Dr Boddy will explain how female psychopaths are more manipulative than males, use different techniques to create a good impression, and utilise deceit and sexually seductive behaviour to gain social and financial advantage more than male psychopaths do. [...] “Also, female psychopaths tend to use words, rather than violence, to achieve their aims, differing from how male psychopaths tend to operate. If female psychopathy expresses differently, then measures designed to capture and identify male, criminal, psychopaths may be inadequate at identifying female non-criminal, psychopaths. “Female psychopaths, while not as severely psychopathic or as psychopathic as often as males are, have nevertheless been underestimated in their incidence levels and are therefore more of a potential threat to business and society than anyone previously suspected." https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1035798