Title: Male and Female Psychopaths: How They Are Different
Headings: The main differences between male and female psychopaths
The main differences between male and female psychopaths
Lindsay Dodgson
There are more male psychopaths than female ones.
How a psychopath's brain is different
Women are less likely to murder than men, but it does happen.
Psychopaths aren't all obsessed with killing
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Content: Women are less likely to murder than men, but it does happen. dubasyk / Shutterstock
Women, of course, do kill sometimes. In an article for The Conversation, Marissa Harrison wrote about her research looking at 64 female serial killers. The results of the study found that most female serial killers were middle- and upper-class. Almost all of them were white and had a degree or college education. Most of them knew their victims — two-thirds were related to them, a third murdered their significant other, and 44% killed their own children. Harrison's team found that female serial killers would primarily murder people because of money rather than sex or rage, which are more likely to be motives for male murderers. Psychopaths aren't all obsessed with killing
There is a strong sex difference between most people and psychopaths in general, Raine said, but more research is needed to know the specific details. It's a myth that all psychopaths are obsessed with death and homicide. Psychopaths are more likely to be thrill-seekers because of their blunted emotions, but they're not that much more likely to commit murder than the rest of the population, Raine said.