How To Tell If Someone Is A Psychopath

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Patrick Bateman from American Psycho is a prime example of a confident, manipulative psychopath. Paul Gardner/Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0

The likelihood is that we all know at least one psychopath, as it’s estimated that between 1-4% of the population fall somewhere on the psychopathic scale. These people are often overly confident, manipulative, and lack empathy and remorse. Some are even violent, but not all.