In this chapter, Jon Ronson is introduced to the psychopath test and learned what it was. He met Bob Hare who diagnosed patients with psychopathy by inflicting painful shocks on them. Ronson attented a conference, hosted by Hare himself, where he learned all about the psychopath test. Bob Hare, at the conference attempted and succeeded to pursuade the other psychologists that the psychopath test is really a reliable test for diagnosing psychopaths. Ronson is given a checklist that contains cues that one should look for when diagnosing a psychopath. With this Ronson is inspired to examine certain people in his life to uncover their psychopath ways.
This chapter was an interesting one because the methods these psychologists used, for example Bob Hare, are ones that I could never imagine myself using to diagnose a person with psychopathy. I thought this was one of the most important chapters in the book because it introduced the famous psychopath test.
Chapter 5 made me think about the ways in which psychopaths like to manipulate others and made me wonder how someone could even think of such things. Toto is my favorite character in the book so far because he misleads the reader to thinking that he might not actually be a psychopath but changes their mind in an instant. I thought this chapter was was very interesting.
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