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Personality: dark traits and pathology

Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised.

PCL-R

What it measures
Psychopathy (clinical/forensic gold standard); 20 items -> Factor 1 (interpersonal/affective) + Factor 2 (lifestyle/antisocial); 4-facet model
Length and format
20 items. clinician rating, 3-point (0/1/2) per item from semi-structured interview + file review (clinician-rated/interview)
Language versions
Many: ES, DE, SV, PT, ZH, etc.
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Hare, R. D. (2003). The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (2nd ed.). Toronto: Multi-Health Systems.

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