Kevin Dutton

He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, and a member of the Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN) research group, and says "I divide my time between lab-based research and popular writing."{{cite web|title=Kevin Dutton|url=http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/researchers/kevin-dutton|website=Medical Sciences Division: Department of Experimental Psychology|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=14 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114213359/http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/researchers/kevin-dutton|archive-date=14 January 2015|url-status=dead}} Before this post he was a research fellow at the Faraday Institute, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, and Visiting Professor for the Public Engagement with Psychological Science at the University of Essex. He gained his Ph.D. from the University of Essex in 2000 with the thesis title Minorities as symbols of uniqueness : a break from the norm.{{cite web|title=Library catalogue record for Dutton's thesis|url=http://encore.essex.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1433634__Skevin%20dutton__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng&suite=cobalt|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150118045530/http://encore.essex.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1433634__Skevin%20dutton__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng&suite=cobalt|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 January 2015|publisher=University of Essex Library|access-date=14 January 2015}}

He heads a research group on "The Role of Personality Traits and Emotion Regulation Skills in Various Occupational Domains.", and his research looks at the role of various "personality traits and emotion regulation skills" in different occupations such as "politics, investment banking, surgery, and the military", and whether action can be taken to enhance these characteristics "to improve job performance and decision making in these occupations."

He has written several popular books on psychopathy, and a review stated that "his analysis tends to reinforce the idea that the chemistry of megalomania which characterises the psychopathic criminal mind is a close cousin to the set of traits often best rewarded by capitalism".{{cite news|last1=Adams|first1=Tim|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/07/wisdom-of-psychopaths-kevin-dutton-review|access-date=14 January 2015|work=The Guardian|date=7 October 2012}} He has said that he wrote The Wisdom of Psychopaths "as an attempt to figure out his dad"; his father worked on a market stall and was "ruthless, fearless and also extremely charming".

In his 2011 Great British Psychopath Survey he concluded that the ten professions that have the highest proportion of psychopaths are:Dutton K The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success'' (2012)

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1. CEOs
2. Lawyers
3. Media people (TV and radio)
4. Sales people
5. Surgeons
6. Journalists
7. Police officers
8. Clergy
9. Chefs
10. Civil servants

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All of these careers require a strong degree of professional detachment. In the same year he featured in Channel 4's "Psychopath Night", and launched a survey to which 700,000 viewers responded. Among the conclusions: "those with the least psychopathic traits preferred cats or kittens to many other pets while the most psychopathic individuals preferred pet fish."

In October 2014 he appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. His hypothetical donation to this fictional museum was "a smile".{{cite web|title=Museum of Curiosity: Gallery 7 Room 2|url=http://qi.com/museum/museum-gallery-7/museum-702/|publisher=Quite Interesting Limited|access-date=14 January 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114222118/http://qi.com/museum/museum-gallery-7/museum-702/|archive-date=14 January 2015}}{{cite web|title=The Museum of Curiosity: Series 6 Episode 2|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04l0gdv|website=Radio 4|publisher=BBC|access-date=14 January 2015}}

• Black and White Thinking: The burden of a binary brain in a complex world (2020, Random House, {{ISBN|9781473558311}})
• {{cite web |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/would-you-vote-for-a-psychopath/ |title=Would You Vote for a Psychopath? Research shows that some of the component traits of psychopathy help leaders succeed |author=Kevin Dutton |date=September 1, 2016 |website=scientificamerican.com |publisher=Scientific American |access-date=September 29, 2016 |quote=}}
• The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Kevin Dutton and Andy McNab, with cartoons by Rob Murray (2014, Bantam Press, {{ISBN|9780593073995}})
• The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success (2012, Heinemann, {{ISBN|9780434020676}})
• Flipnosis: The Art of Split-Second Persuasion (2008, Heinemann, {{ISBN|9780434016914}})

• Psychopathy in the workplace

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• [http://www.kevindutton.co.uk Dr Kevin Dutton personal site]

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