A new psychological study has found that people who report favorable views of Donald Trump also tend to score higher on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits—and lower on empathy and compassion. The findings, based on two large surveys of U.S. adults, shed light on how personality traits relate to political beliefs, including support for Trump and conservative ideology. The research was recently published in the Journal of Research in Personality.
…why in God’s name would a psychopath report that he’s a psychopath?
If you’re interested in the methodology used, here’s a link to the full study.
Essentially, they didn’t ask if the person thought they were a psychopath; They asked questions to which the answers reveal underlying character traits. Of course, no method of data collection is perfect. If you want to know what steps were taken to filter out insincere subjects, that information can also be found within the full study.