{"id":782,"date":"2026-08-27T05:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/how-to-spot-a-psychopath-its-like-the-difference-between-a-domestic-cat-and-a-wild-cat-psychology-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:37:28","slug":"how-to-spot-a-psychopath-its-like-the-difference-between-a-domestic-cat-and-a-wild-cat-psychology-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/how-to-spot-a-psychopath-its-like-the-difference-between-a-domestic-cat-and-a-wild-cat-psychology-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"How to spot a psychopath: \u2018It\u2019s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat\u2019 | Psychology | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mitchell built a template of 20 attributes, divided into four clusters, and 25 tactics that would identify a high-functioning persistent predatory personality type. Cluster one includes a need for control; a grandiose sense of self; pathological inner response to challenge; vengefulness; refusal to compromise. Cluster two includes being predatory or exploitative; sadistic and cruel; having a low regard for laws, agreements, social and moral codes; no boundaries in sexual relationships; unreasonable expectations of others. Cluster three relates to the truth: Dark Personalities cultivate a fa\u00e7ade of normality; they are chameleon-like; dishonest; devious and manipulative; and unwilling to accept responsibility for the negative impacts they cause. Finally, cluster four is around the Dark Personality\u2019s own interior life: their emotions are acted and they do not experience affinity or the joy that comes with it; they are callous and devoid of empathy; unremorseful; self-interested; and brazen.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/aug\/27\/how-to-spot-a-psychopath-its-like-the-difference-between-a-domestic-cat-and-a-wild-cat\">www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/aug\/27\/how-to-spot-a-psychopath-its-like-the-difference-between-a-domestic-cat-and-a-wild-cat<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell built a template of 20 attributes, divided into four clusters, and 25 tactics that would identify a high-functioning persistent predatory personality type. Cluster one includes a need for control; a grandiose sense of self; pathological inner response to challenge; vengefulness; refusal to compromise. Cluster two includes being predatory or exploitative; sadistic and cruel; having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,193,38],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-consciousness","tag-psychopaths","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}