Sublime

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Neuroticism and Agreeableness.

A good mood can deceive your thinking just as much as a bad one.

a grandiose sense of self-worth, persuasiveness, superficial charm, ruthlessness, lack of remorse, and the manipulation of others – are also shared by politicians and world leaders.

emotional intelligence, which has been defined in several

Robert Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence

Most of the research in the field has been based on either the EQ-i, a self-report measure, or the MSCEIT (Mayer, Salovey, and Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test), an abilities-based measure.

The psychopath, he observes, is an intelligent person, characterised by a poverty of emotions, the absence of a sense of shame, egocentricity, superficial charm, lack of guilt, lack of anxiety, immunity to punishment, unpredictability, irresponsibility, manipulativeness, and a transient interpersonal lifestyle