bA compelling journey into the science and behavior of psychopaths, written by the leading scientist in the field of criminal psychopathy.b pWe know of psychopaths from chilling headlines and stories in the news and movies--from Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, to Hannibal Lecter and Dexter Morgan. As Dr. Kent Kiehl shows, psychopaths can be identified by a checklist of symptoms that includes pathological lying lack of empathy, guilt, and remorse grandiose sense of self-worth manipulation and failure to accept one's actions. But why do psychopaths behave the way they do Is it the result of their environment-- how they were raised--or is there a genetic composhynent to their lack of conscience p This is the question Kiehl, a prot g of famed psychopath researcher Dr. Robert Hare, was detershymined to answer as he began his career twenty years ago. To aid in his quest to unravel the psyshychopathic mind, Kiehl created the first mobile functional MRI scanner to study psychopaths in prison p