Robert Hare (psychologist)

Dr. Robert D. Hare is a researcher renowned in the field of criminal psychology. He is professor emeritus of the University of British Columbia where his studies centered on psychopathology and psychophysiology. He developed the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) and Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R), used to diagnose cases of psychopathy and also useful in predicting the likelihood of violent behavior. He advises the FBI's Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center (CASMIRC) and consults for various British and North American prison services.

Dr. Hare has spent over 35 years researching psychopathy and is the developer of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), and a co-author of its derivatives, the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV), the P-Scan, the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV), and the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD). He is also a co-author of the Guidelines for a Psychopathy Treatment Program. The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, with demonstrated reliability and validity, is rapidly being adopted worldwide as the standard instrument for researchers and clinicians. The PCL-R and PCL:SV are strong predictors of recidivism, violence and response to therapeutic intervention. They play an important role in most recent risk-for-violence instruments. The PCL-R was reviewed in Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook (1995), as being the "state of the art" both clinically and in research use. In 2005, the Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook review listed the PCL-R as "a reliable and effective instrument for the measurement of psychopathy and is considered the 'gold standard' for measurement of psychopathy.

Bibliography

Books

*"Psychopathy: Theory and Research" (1970) ISBN 978-0471351474
*"Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us" (1993, reissued 1999) ISBN 978-0671732615
*"" (2006), with Paul Babiak

ee also

* Psychopathy (contains a summary of Hare's Psychopathy Checklist (Revised)
* Hervey M. Cleckley
*The Mask of Sanity
*Evil Genes

External links

* [http://www.sociopathic.net A view into the mind of a sociopath]
* [http://www.hare.org Robert Hare's website]
* [http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/robert_hare/index.html All about Dr. Robert Hare] - CrimeLibrary.com
* [http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/96/open_boss.html Is Your Boss a Psychopath?] - "Fast Company", July 2005
* [http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~gcpws/Hare/Biography/Hare_bio1.html Great Canadian Psychology Website- Robert Hare Biography]