The Online Psychopathy Checklist

This 175-item checklist developed by a psychologist can help identify psychopaths who "use cyberspace to troll, victimize, control and manipulate" others.

Dear Reader,

A New York-based psychologist, Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D, has developed an incredible checklist of traits and tactics which can help assess if another online user may be an online psychopath based on his years of hands on work in the field of cyberpsychology.

Online Psychopaths [aka, iPredopaths] is an Information Age criminology and human consciousness concept replacing classic sociopathy and psychopathy constructs. iPredopathy is a characterological disorder describing online users who skillfully use cyberspace to troll, victimize, control and manipulate other online users. Driven by grandiosity, a need for power or sexual perversion, they experience minimal to no remorse or guilt. Many iPredopaths do not break the law and live unscathed by law enforcement, fraternal organizations, religious institutions and the legal system.

He has further defined these actors:

The theoretical triad of Information Age dark side of human consciousness is iPredator, iPredopath and Doctus iPr…