12:15 "English accent"? Hopkins has a Welsh accent, admittedly slight but still Welsh.

Perhaps one of the biggest things missed from this talk is that the vast majority of psychopaths are not in fact in prison.
Many studies have been done on psychopathy with regards to those in positions of power, responsibility and leadership.

I stopped listening at  02.30 when 'Common Purpose' was mentioned in the sense they are striving towards this.  Enough said for me!

It’s a pretty weird theory that we need psychopaths as some type of scapegoat. It’s clear this person hasn’t had an up close and personal encounter with a psychopath. For me it’s simply an example of how experience is more valuable than education. You can read a million books and listen to a million lectures on the subject but unless you’ve had a real encounter with one, you just really don’t know.

Every person who comes into contact with evil will lead a hundred more to good.

I love the passion, delivery and attitude, and opposing viewpoints to the conventional wisdom. Most certainly the offenders/defendants  diagnosed as psychopaths deserve fair and reasonable defense in and out of court.
Personally I disagree with Professor Maruna for most of the 50 minutes and look forward to viewing more of similar viewpoints. I am sure also Dr. Hare would enjoy being disagreed with as much as I, in fact he had said as much to me in recent years. Keep up the good work and the passion.

An outstanding example of "Truth in Labelling"

I took an interest in War stories, played Cowboys and Indians etc, as a kid, and only realised that Heroic behaviour has to be Psychopathic, calm, considered and on point when called up by Conscription. If the labelled person is defending a group such as a Platoon, or Corporation, they are Heroic, but when they get 500X the income of the Workers at the expense of the business, and make obscene profits from mass destruction, then they are "Snakes in Suits".

The Legal Profession is built on the framework of Mercenary Warfare after the 30 years War, so we are informed by Historians, a point to consider when encountering the participants.

Dr Sapolsky's assessment of the "Political" behaviour in Baboons is a shortend story that fits the range of probabilities mould, of re-evolution potential possibilities confined by the Form following e-Pi-i sync-duration Function condensed in/of numberness, ..in this heirachical dominance structure that is general bio-logical pulse-evolution, Gaian Planetary Ecology.

I think this talk only covers half of the paradox of the psychopathic narrative. Professor Maruna arrives at it when discussing the differing notions of evil at the end of the lecture. Professor Maruna defines one perspective as assuming evil is inherent, and another perspective as assuming that evil is created by less than ideal social structures. The problem with explaining psychopathy by reference to social structures is that it is ambiguous how much social structure research we would actually need to "identify" which parts are causing psychopathy. So long as we remain fixed to the label of psychopath we are avoiding the real theoretical implications of social science oriented around social structures. It is impossible to tell if researching social structures would ever reveal anything like a "psychopath" as we now understand it. Professor Maruna, and whoever else reads this comment, remember this: down with institutional psychology, down with essentialist diagnostic psychology, and down with idea that teetering on the edge of these beliefs as a self-defined "skeptic" is anything other than continuing the decadent, ineffective legacy of state psychology. Forego the academy. Forego capital.

maybe psychopats had a role in the past in being able to defend or attack groups of enemies, competing for a territory? I'm very curious and I will listen carefully. Certainly, it's a fascinating issue.

I lived with one for 12 years and knew him well for 5 years prior and he has stalked me ever since. He caused great harm in my life, physical, mental and emotional. At a young age he had sharpened instincts on others weakness and exploited them for his gain. His emotional range was shallow unless he did not get his way and then he would become very connected emotionally. He sought power because he felt powerless. He sought pleasure without holding back because he was miserable. He abused because of his underdevopment. He had a mixture of grand sense of self from his ability to fool people and prided himself on being a good actor but it was not enough to fill the whole void of worthlessness so he would try to destroy people...to bring them to his level to relieve those feelings. These people feel negative emotions in powerful ways but are numb in many others areas. They cause great harm to people and themselves. They lack regard for anyone else and react like a drowning person when help arrives. People should beware. There is damn good cause. The only good thing that came from this for me in my healing was he forced me to close any gaps of weakness and vulnerability. I had no choice but to create strong boundaries in my life so people like this could not get a foot in the door. I still have PTSD because of my dealings with this person.

"evil is other people"

Society needs a constant scapegoat, a witch, a bogeyman, the bad guy; something usually beyond understanding, mystical and mysterious, an enigmatic figure ...

Brilliant, balanced and accessible. Thank you!

The scapegoat idea only potentially works from the perception of a 'normal' person. Science has a way of wanking itself with definitions and language.. fumbling around with binary thinking and dynamic spectra at the same time, and chucking in some theology to really confuse the shit out of itself - in this case. Psychopathism is a force. Intuition and self-trust is the shield.

Oh my god, I love this guy lol I'm only a few minutes into his speech, and he's just awesome 😅

Thank you for your great information on such types of people.

Cannot agree with this man. That he doesn't know the difference  between superficial charm and real charm is really quite shocking becasue it is so simple. The difference is sincerity. If you use charm to impress, manipulate or to make yourself look good then thats superficial. if your goal is to just be nice to those around you and facilitate mutually beneficial collaboration then its sincere because the goal is not exclusively selfish.

It is very interesting to look at the reactions that this lecture has elicited. It seems that some people have benefitted greatly from learning about the psychopathy and relating it to their own experiences, and are offended by this speach.  It may well be that the PCL-R is not a great predictor of certain outcomes of interest, and should not be used in the way that it is used, while at the same time, the concept makes sense, and describes interactions of great interest.
Babiak and Hare did a really good stuy on corporate psychopathy (the title is "Talking the Walk", and it can be found for free online). So maybe psycopathy is both an important concept, and less related to crime and reoffending than we used to believe?

Survival is indicated in the wide variety of personality types within the human gene pool. It takes all kinds.

He is very smart,

To A Mishel: His full name Robert D. Hare, it's fare to assume the D would be David and this professor knows him personally enough to call him by either.