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Sunday, March 19. 2006A do-it-yourself test for sociopathyStumble-upon Readers: Welcome to Maggie's. Check out our blog, while you are visiting! We try to be surprising, and almost always interesting... Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads: A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazingly appealing. She believed him to be her dream guy and soul mate so much that she fell in love with him right then and there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister. Question: What is her motive for killing her sister? [Give this some thought before you answer] X X X X X X X X X X Answer: She was hoping the guy would appear at the funeral again. If you answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath. This was a test by a famous American Psychologist used to test if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the question correctly. If you didn't answer the question correctly, good for you. If you got the answer correct, please let me know so I can take you off my email list, unless that will make you unhappy, in which case I'll just be extra nice to you in the future.
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Um, and what does it mean if I answered:
"She discovered the man was really her sister in drag." My thought was that anyone who'd fall that far in love in one meeting at her mom's funeral no less, might kill her sister, or do anything else under the sun, just cuz she was nutso.
But, yes, that is one wicked test, a real aimed shot. I've seen this one before. I came up with a few answers, but not the right one.
Every so often, when the mood is right, I trot this out and see if anyone guesses the answer. Most people not only cannot guess it, but they are appalled at the answer. The one person who guessed immediately? My unmarried sister! I hope I'm not in trouble. My sister thinks that single people will be more apt to guess the answer. I haven't tested that theory yet. Yikes. While I'm usually pretty good at out-thinking bad guys, I failed this one. Glad to have done so. Think I'll pass it around and see if some suspicions will be confirmed.
I totally got this one right. Or wrong should I say. I actually expected that almost everyone would get the same answer, but no one else did. I thought it was just a logical conclusion.
I guess I kind of fit the description of a sociopath in some ways. I don't trust people too much and I'm very critical of others, but I'd never consider hurting anyone. Probably why I think like this, is because I was made fun of a lot as a kid. It made me very introverted. I just think most people will think it's ironic, given the fact that my email is sick.psyche. Also, the fact that I have my own website is ironic considering sociopaths are generally very narcissistic. However, I suppose I have an excuse for that one. My mom actually made me that website to post my art on a couple years ago when I turned sixteen. Didn't anyone else choose the unhealthy answer? Sociopathy and Psychopathy are not the same things, you moron.
Sociopaths lack several or all emotions and are extremely capable of faking the emotions they lack, are persuasive and generally(there are exceptions) highly intelligent. They also have OCD and are Paranoid, though the latter can range from minor suspicion to extreme phobia. Psychopaths have extreme emotions, are highly intelligent and very compulsive. They are the deadly, unpredictable kind, because they let their emotions lead them. Sociopaths on the other hand, lack those emotions, and thus are very much less likely to kill, not because of awareness of good or bad, but more because of the consequences it could bring. Apparently, you don't really know what you are talking about either. No, sociopaths and psychopaths are not the same thing, but you have them mixed up and backwards. Sociopaths are people who have very little guilt response to doing bad things and so they tend to do whatever they feel like doing at the time and will do whatever it is they need to to get it, often ignoring social norms. A more extreme example of this would be someone who kills somebody else because they want their ice cream cone. In contrast, psychopaths are people who have "thought disturbances", meaning their thought process is "off". An extremem example of this would be someone who hears voices telling him that aliens have emplanted chips in his stomach that make unicorns fly out of his butt while he is sleeping, but doesn't see anything odd about this belief. Anyways, so sociopathology and psychopathology are quite general terms that can encompass a lot of different behaviors and often times the behaviors can be very similar, what differentiates them is the person's thought process behind doing the action. As far as the test above goes, this woman could be either a sociopath or a psychopath depending on her reasoning behind the decision to kill her sister.
As far as a lot of your other statements go, good grief. Psychopaths are usually not dangerous let alone deadly. Some small percentage of persons with psychopathology have delusions or hallucinations that lead to them wanting to hurt or kill other people (they think they need to kill you to save the world from something or voices are telling them to kill you because you are going to attack them). This is not very common. Paranoia among psychopaths does tend to be quite common however. OCD and intelligence are completely separate issues from either psychopathology or sociopathology and tend to be completely coincidental when they occur together (however as narcisism and sociopathology often goes hand-in-hand, many sociopaths may believe that they are very intelligent). As far as emotions go, sociopaths tend to have a very decreased response to emotional stimuli, with the exception that some things can often piss them off quite well. Psychopaths usually don't interpret emotional stimuli correctly (due to their messed up mental processing) and so often don't seem to respond to stimuli and usually don't understand other people's reactions to emotional stimuli. It is very common for persons with psychopathology to have what is called "flat affect" which means they just don't display emotions and don't respond to emotions. I often describe this as they look like they are pretending to be robots. Anyway, this is a quick overview, so there are lots of nuances to these things that I have not touched on here. If you want more information, go look it up ;-) I remember this test when I took social psychology 12... My first logical answer to that was infact the correct one... but I didn't riase me hand to share my answer...
People around me were blurting out answers, not one said what I was thinking... They were all confused. Noone could get it. But me, being so shy... just sat there. Luckily, I ended up remaining completely silent, and when the teacher told us the answer, I found I was correct. All of my classmates, well, they were rather stunned. Classmates which, were all infact in grade 12. I was in grade 11. and pulling the highest mark in the class... 102% I let my emotions guide my life and my actions, and I am rather compulsive. I tend to not talk to much to people about how I feel, causing unpredictible behavior... and here I thought I was a sociopath! I'm a psychpath! Yay! (Now I can scare the sh*t out of people!) I'm bookmarking this page. I guessed right.
And I'm actually getting rather high scores on the tests. I think they'd be higher except that I've beaten a sense of duty into myself. I don't really care about most people, to tell the truth, really just fond of most people... If something happened to someone, I wouldn't really care, and would just try to pick up from there, and help them repair the damage (if possible) either out of a sense of duty or because I like them. And if I had to do something bad in order to prevent something even worse, I'd do it, and unlike most people I wouldn't have a twinge of conscience about it, or ever think "Could I have done it any other way?" It's why I'm confused, actually. If it weren't for the duty bit, I'm sure I'd be getting 80%, 90% sociopath. My mom asked me this one when I was 14 or so. I immediately came up with the dreaded "correct" answer, but I imagine there is more to sociopathy than that... I do fake some emotions, but I genuinely feel compassion for others.
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