Here are a few items on a 20-item personality test to evaluate likelihood of psychopathology:
... glibness and superficial charm, grandiose self-worth,
pathological lying, proneness to boredom and emotional vacuity.
Other traits shared by "brutal killers":
... malignant narcissism, a personality type characterized not
only by grandiosity but by fantasies of unlimited power and
success, a deep sense of entitlement, and a need for excessive
admiration.
---NY Times, Published 2/8/05
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