The Psychopath Test was finally introduced brought up in more details in Chapter 4. Jon Ronson met up with a psychopath psychiatrist who's name was Bob Hare, he was the inventor of the psychopath test. Ronson attended a meeting about the checklist which he was also charged to attend, but got a small discount because he was media. Bob Hare discussed in the seminar how he and many other psychiatrists originated the checklist by studying psychopaths carefully. Another psychiatrist that also studied the psychopaths was Adam Perkins except he used more medical based concept for his research such as screening of the brains activities in psychopaths versus non-psychopaths. Perkins found that there was a major difference in the nervous system between the two which shows there are some differences. Ronson is really fascinated by the list that was developed and decides that he wants to test it out for himself which is the beginning of the next chapter where he interviews Toto the other "psychopath".
I thought this chapter was really interesting as it really makes you think what would you do if someone accused you as a psychopath. The psychopath list has such a wide range of things that can identify you as a psychopath so it's difficult not to be diagnosed as one. This book does a really good job describing many things in detail. The psychopath test makes it possible for many people to possibly be diagnosed as psychopaths, how do you know if the people that created it were not psychopaths. It really leads you to question many things. However, overall I think this book is really interesting and it actually makes you think about things in more detail.
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