A conclusao de Hare foi a de que, quando psicopatasveem imagens grotescas de rostos desfigurados, em vez de assustados, ficamfascinados por elas. Entusiasmado por suas descobertas, Hareenviou-os a revista Science. O editor devolveu o material enviado sempublica-lo, com a seguinte observacao apensa a ele: Francamente, achamos muitoestranhos alguns dos padroes de ondas cerebrais apresentados em seu artigo. Esses EEGs nao podem ter provindo de pessoas reais.Essarecusa da revista Science e o fato de que, pouco depois de haver iniciado suas pesquisas,o eletrochoque foi banido de instituicoes medico-psiquiatricas, impedindo Hare dereplica-las, certamente uma das razoes pelas quais seus importantissimos resultadossao ate hoje tao pouco conhecidos. Dedicou,entao, grande parte do restante de sua vida a transformar em teste a contribuicaode Cleckley para a descricao da psicopatia, produzindo a hoje famosa PsychopathyChecklist (algo como: Lista de Checagempara o Diagnostico de Psicopatia), que reproduzo a seguir:Fatores, Facetas e itensFator1 Facet1: interpessoal Loquacidade/ charme superficial Sensograndioso de autoestima mentirapatologica Astucia/ manipulacaoFaceta2: Afetiva Afalta de remorso ou culpa Emocionalmenteraso Astucia/ falta de empatia Incapacidadeem aceitar a responsabilidade por suas proprias acoes Faceta3: Estilo de vida Necessidadede estimulacao / tendencia ao tedio Estilode vida parasitaria Faltade metas realistas a longo prazo ImpulsividadeIrresponsabilidadeFacet4: Anti-Social Controlecomportamental deficienteProblemascomportamentais precoces Delinquenciajuvenil Revogacaode liberdade condicional Versatilidadena pratica do crime Fator2 Outrositens Muitosrelacionamentos conjugais de curto prazo Comportamento sexual promiscuoA reproducao dotexto original de Jon Ronson vai a seguir:["In the mid-60s, [Robert] Hare was working as a prisonpsychologist in Vancouver. He put wordaround the prison that he was looking for psychopathic and non-psychopathicvolunteers for tests. He strapped themup to various EEG and sweat- and blood pressure-measuring machines, and also toan electricity generator, and explained to them that he was going to countbackwards from 10 and when he reached one they'd receive a very painfulelectric shock.The difference in the responses stunned Hare. The non-psychopatic volunteers (theirs werecrimes of passion, usually, or crimes born from terrible poverty or abuse)steeled themselves ruefully, as if a painful electric shock were just thepenance they deserved. They were, Harenoticed, scared.And the psychopaths? I [JonRonson, the author of the article] asked.They didn't break a sweat, said Hare. Nothing. The test seemed to indicate that theamygdala, the part of the brain that should have anticipated the unpleasantnessand sent the requisite signals of fear to the central nervous system, wasn'tfunctioning as it should. It was anenormous breakthrough for Hare, his first clue that the brains of psychopathswere different from regular brains."He was even more astonished when he repeated the test. This time, the psycophaths knew exactly howmuch pain they'd be in, and still: nothing. Hare learned somethingthat others wouldn't for years: psychopats were likely to reoffend.' They had no memory of the pain ofthe electric shock, even when the pain had occurred just moments before,' Haresaid. 'So what's the point inthreatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of theirparole? The threat has no meaning forthem.' He did another experiment, the startle reflex test, in which thepsychopaths and non-psychopaths were invited to look at grotesque images, suchas crime-scene photographs of blown-apart faces, and when they last expected itHare would let off an incredibly