Murderous psychopaths might make great movie villains, but research now suggests that these emotionless killers simply don't exist in real life.

It seems obvious that anyone who willfully and repeatedly commits murder is a psychopath: remorseless, egotistical, manipulative, and cruel. Think of Ted Bundy, Dennis Rader, or John Wayne Gacy.

Psychopaths and sociopaths are diagnoses that are often associated with serial killers. But for those of us that are not experts in the field of psychology, what do these disorders actually mean?

In 2014, the Belgian psychiatry professor Samuel Leistedt and his 10 colleagues watched hundreds of movies in the name of science.

The following article contains graphic content regarding true criminal behavior. On Monday, April 7, Amherst Cinema hosted a screening of Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” as part of its ...

Ever wonder if there are as many serial killers lurking in the shadows as there used to be? Well, tried-and-true crime followers have, which is why Oxygen.com wanted to get to the bottom of the truth ...

According to author Kevin Dutton, psychopaths have a distinct set of personality characteristics. Pictured is Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho. Photo by: Mary Evans / UNIVERSAL PICTURES / ...

Serial killer shows, like Monster: The Ed Gein Story and the equally as disturbing The Serpentabout Charles Sobhraj, have never been more popular – and most of these stories focus on disturbed men ...