Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A few weeks ago, when we wrote about the confusion over the homophones “poor,” “pour,” and “pore,” we said that ...

Callous describes someone who shows little or no care about other people’s feelings. In simple terms, if a person is callous, they seem emotionally cold or insensitive, especially when others are hurt ...

Current research on conduct problems focuses heavily on psychopathic traits, labeled as “callous–unemotional” when referring to such traits in youth, which include reduced guilt, callousness, uncaring ...