"He admitted to many, many items on the checklist, but redefined them as leadership positives," he says. "And he immediately started to talk about how he believed in the predatory spirit, which was word for word what Bob Hare writes about in the checklist: Look out for their belief in the predatory spirit."īut Dunlap managed to turn the psychopath test on its head, Ronson says. "So I turned up at his house, and it was full of sculptures of predatory animals," Ronson says. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry While researching his book, Ronson visited the Florida home of Al Dunlap - known as "Chainsaw Al" - who as CEO of appliance maker Sunbeam was notorious for his gleeful fondness for firing people and shutting down factories. But Ronson says successful businessmen can also score high on the checklist. Picture a psychopath and you might think of Norman Bates. Invented by Hare, it's a checklist of characteristics common to psychopaths: things like glib and superficial charm, grandiosity, manipulative behavior and lack of remorse. Ronson is the author of a new book, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry.
recently announced that you're four times more likely to find a psychopath at the top of the corporate ladder than you are walking around in the janitor's office," journalist Jon Ronson tells Guy Raz, host of weekends on All Things Considered. "Robert Hare, the eminent Canadian psychologist who invented the psychopath checklist. Some psychologists have a theory that many of the world's ills can be blamed on psychopaths in high places. Jon Ronson's previous books include Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats.
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