
It’s more an insight which has come from the toxic relationship community from people’s experiences with non violent psychopaths. This is a huge one to look out for, and in a sense it will be very obvious when you come across it, but isn’t really contained within the Psychopathy Checklist, so needs mentioning. What readers are looking for is some more subtle and less obvious signs of psychopathy, so let’s dive into some less known signs below. However, we won’t dwell on this as they are now pretty well known.
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See our full length article on the Psychopathy Traits Checklist for a detailed overview of all these traits, including examples for every one. We’ll briefly list the main traits of the Psychopathy Checklist, which sum up the main characteristics common in evaluated psychopaths in the criminal justice system. Psychopathy Traits Checklist Recap (More Obvious Traits) Some of these traits overlap a little, but we’ll go over each of them in much more detail below, after first quickly listing the more conventional psychopathic traits. Lack of ability to grow, change or evolve.


A fixation on power and control over others.Provocative and reaction seeking behavior.Here are some more subtle and less obvious indicators of psychopathy: Psychopaths are very capable of upgrading the act of deception and creating a more convincing facade for the next person they con, so it’s important to really step back and ask some bigger picture questions to expose the more cleverly concealed psychopaths.

We’ll also try to include some really broad overarching markers that will enable you to see through a psychopath’s glib facade, no matter how well they think they’ve refined it to try and take people in. However, in this post we’ll seek to cover some less obvious and less mentioned traits that can indicate psychopathy the ones that aren’t so obviously drawn out from diagnostic lists such as the Psychopathy Checklist. There are in reality lots of different traits you can look out for to try and spot psychopathy in a person, some contained in more official lists and some not.
