Ashley L. Watts

TL;DR: Fearless Dominance, which reflects the boldness associated with psychopathy, was associated with better rated presidential performance, leadership, persuasiveness, crisis management, Congressional relations, and allied variables; it was also associated with several largely or entirely objective indicators of presidential performance.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the correlations between the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and normal-range personality traits is used as a launching point to deconstruct widely used measures of psychopathy into their constituent subdimensions and examine the associations of these subdimension with higher-order and lower-order personality dimensions drawn from the Big Five and Big Three frameworks.

TL;DR: The results demonstrated that there is important variance related to interpersonal antagonism and disinhibition that is not assessed by the Dirty Dozen, and the authors suggest that caution should be used in relying on the DD as a measure of psychopathy.

TL;DR: A status report on successful psychopathy research can be found in this article, where the authors examine evidence for competing models of successful psychopathic traits and offer desiderata for future research.

TL;DR: It is found that presidents exhibit elevated levels of grandiose narcissism compared with the general population, and that presidents’ grandiosed narcissism has been rising over time, suggesting that grandiOSE narcissism may be a double-edged sword in the leadership domain.