Despite this apparent interpersonal skill, limited previous studies have revealed that psychopath’s language appears to be paradoxically less cohesive than non-psychopaths. Cleckley (1976) observed, through case studies, that the discourse of psychopaths was more likely to include a tangential and incoherent quality. Only two (older) empirical studies examined the issue. Williamson (1993) analysed the narratives of psychopaths and non-psychopaths, finding that the former used more contradictory, logically inconsistent statements. Similarly, Brinkley, Newman, Harpur, and Johnson (1999) found that narratives by psychopaths contained fewer cohesive ties and more poorly integrated details. What might the speech of such an emotionally barren, highly manipulative psychopath look like upon closer analysis? The present study is the first to uniquely examine the specific qualities of psychopathic language by using more sophisticated statistical text analysis tools.