Website Report – 2022 Annual Report

 

On the Homepage and Website…

 

We uploaded a lot of new material to the website during the year, including four Ask The Expert interviews with Dr. Donald Lynam, Dr. Angela Book, Dr. Michael Woodworth, and Dr. Arielle Baskin-Sommers.  Dr. Woodworth opted to deliver his responses via video.  The viewer responses have been overwhelmingly positive, so now our experts are given the option of choosing a written response to our questions or a video response.

 

Two articles for our Through the Eyes of a Survivor series written by survivors were posted on the topics of “Lying and Duping Delight” and “Anger.”

 

Each year, our volunteers read the current research in the field and write summaries in user-friendly language. During 2022, three Research Summaries from the scientific literature on psychopathy were uploaded. (View the Research Committee report for a more detailed report).

 

• “Relationships between the Dark Triad Personalities (Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism) and Creativity.”
• “Psychopathic Individuals Can Use Your Personality Traits to Detect Vulnerability.”
• “Dangerous dating in the digital age: Psychopathy and jealousy predict cyber dating abuse.”
• In addition, we posted a discussion of a documentary on Netflix: “A Life Too Good to Be True: A Review of Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler.”

 

We have had great success attracting visits from foreign-language speakers from around the world.  This year the ten countries from which the most people visited were the United States, Germany, Spain, Greece, Poland, the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Argentina, and Austria.

2022 Website Visitor Countries

 

 

Members Page…

On our Members Page we post material that is accessible only to those who have a membership (at the Regular, Silver or Gold level).  During 2022, we posted one web conversation and two additional summaries of articles:

 

We also moved material from our Members Page to the main website to ensure that the most valuable information about the impact of psychopathy is also available to all website visitors.  This year we reposted to the home page:

 

• A web conversation with Dr. Angela Book
• A presentation on the “Neurobiology of Psychopathy” by Dr. Koenigs

 

Timely Notices…

 

We regularly post notices and announcements to keep our visitors apprised of our activities.  Here are just a few that were posted in 2022:

 

• 2021 Aftermath Graduate Student Award Given to Dr. Kendra Nespoli
• The 2020 Aftermath Foundation Annual Report
• A “Thank You” to those who generously donated as part of our Giving Tuesday fundraising campaign
• Dr. David Kosson’s interview with Ms. Tegan Osmond on her podcast

 

We sometimes allow researchers to post notices on our site soliciting participants for their studies.  This year we posted a request from a researcher studying the impact of being in a romantic relationship with someone with psychopathic traits.

 

Behind the Scenes…

 

We continue to use our Search Engine Optimization (SEO) “meta tag list” to improve our presence on Internet search engines.  We also now structure our articles in formats friendly to search engines.

 

We continue to upgrade our WordPress and php software to keep our site current, secure and fully operational; we also make regular backups of the entire site in case of necessity.

 

Recent government regulations now require all websites to post their Cookie Policy (i.e., how “cookies” are handled by the website) when a new visitor shows up, apprising them of their policy and offering the visitor options to choose from. A popup about our cookie policy use was added to the website in full compliance with new Internet regulations. (We never share anyone’s information with third parties.)

 

Revised Forum Guidelines for registering for the forum were posted to make it easier for visitors to register.

 

The Foundation’s Executive Committee created a list of items for the updating and redesigning of the website.  In pursuit of a new website concept, Paula, our Webmaster, has created a “sandbox” (a secure restricted space offline for website experimentation) to facilitate the redesign of our website.

 

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