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The article did not tell me anything I did not know, and it is most assuredly 'pop psychology'. They did link to the recent study which pointed out even those considered "psychopaths" (anti-social personality disorder) actually are not entirely devoid of the capacity of empathy. As this is a recent study, I won't save people the time to link to it, you should figure this stuff out on your own. But, you should also already know of it, and have recognized it immediately. If you have been doing your homework in this area.

If you had not already heard of that study, then you should self-assess your self: why am I looking into this area? What motivates me? Am I truly 'doing my homework', or am I just like a tumbleweed, going from article to article, looking for more which confirms my already pre-existing biases?

I will give this link: the Psycopath Test, by Jon Ronson.

That is, also, enough to spend two seconds to google.

If you really, truly believe in the psychopathy label, then I would strongly encourage you folks who do so to challenge your beliefs" by reading that book. Ronson has a few books out there, and they are all excellent for challenging common conceptions on murky material.

I am not saying the article was not generally true. Fact is, it is. But, you can know that it is a myth merely because it is not even in the DSM. As this article points out, nor is anything even like it. It does not point out many important, related matters, however. Like the general public should not even be taking such labels - even if they were in the DSM - and going about doing their own diagnosis of others. And, if they are... why* are they doing this?

If you do not know why you are doing this, then isn't that a little more of a pressing mystery to solve... then playing doctor on people who are not even your patents, and whom you probably know little to nothing about?

My own interest in this thread, btw, is 'why do otherwise reasonable people believe truly unreasonable things', and 'why do otherwise intelligent people who have strict standards they say they adhere to, not actually use those standards and flagrantly so'.

That is very interesting, because it can tell you a lot about your own way of taking in information and help you find errors others have you, your own self, might also have.