The 'test' for psychopaths
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OR I'm the only sane and reasonable person in here.plastic_window said:There are four people here, including myself who worked it out without the information you're asking for. But it isn't a straight-forward question anyway - it's one of those ones that psychiatrists (or psychologists, I forget why they're different) use on patients to see what they think beneath the surface. I think the reason why they use it is because it has very little detail. Remember the hospital scene in A Clockwork Orange? Like those speech things that she gives him.pffh said:
In short, you failed. Try again
Perhaps they see the mystery man as a goal. Rather than love, they see attainment. I don't know if that's classified as emotion though, so I may be wrong.The_root_of_all_evil said:
haha, like this oneirishstormtrooper said:
as for my answer... erm....
because she found out her sister killed her mother is what popped into my head first... DAMN i have such a boring imagination...
Well, I say: With the loss of her mother the stability she found in family has evapourated, she has lost her female role figure in life. The fact that she does not find out more about this man shows her lack of desire to find an emotional connection with anyone at this traumatic time in her life but a physical connection which she desires. She will probably blame her mother for the emotion she is feeling at this time, and seeing the connection between her mother and sister (older sister maybe, so a strong female role model) causes her to find her as a suitable outlet for the guilt/betrayal she is feeling from the death of her mother.plastic_window said:
ANALYSE ME.
I heard this question posed differently the first time I came across it.plastic_window said:
It was:
"A woman goes to her mother's funeral and meets a man there. She dances and romances with him all night, but fails to get his name or number. Three weeks later, her sister dies. How did she die?"
The premise being that a sociopath would recognize that the death of a second relative would be the most expedient way for the woman to get what she wants - with zero importance attached to the existence of her sister.
Amen to that. Also, cool I'll bring the booze and bandannas, you bring the chicks and megapenguinx can bring the penguins, I guess. Oh by the way, you don't have any problems with ostriches right? You see, I just had a brilliant idea...plastic_window said:
I think the answer could vary.
Plenty of people said it could be because she wants to see the man again, but who's to say the man would really show up at the funeral for her sister? The information granted would mean that the man was, perchance, someone very close to the mother who has become very close to her with all of this 'dancing and romancing.' I suppose the sister's death could conjure him, but I would consider a psychopathic killer someone without true reasoning skills of one sort or another.
She could have killed the sister due to an entirely different case.
She could have killed the sister because she also killed the mother and is attempting to relinquish any lasting effects of a possible standing conspiracy against her.
Heck, she could have been thinking of the right way/time to kill the man, and, having failed to do so, killed someone else out of sheer ire.
In a fit of anxiety/panic, she could have killed the sister because of the mother's death.
All of those answers are psychopathic in different ways; anywhere from schizophrenia to personality deficiency disorder to intermittent explosive disorder.
Plenty of people said it could be because she wants to see the man again, but who's to say the man would really show up at the funeral for her sister? The information granted would mean that the man was, perchance, someone very close to the mother who has become very close to her with all of this 'dancing and romancing.' I suppose the sister's death could conjure him, but I would consider a psychopathic killer someone without true reasoning skills of one sort or another.
She could have killed the sister due to an entirely different case.
She could have killed the sister because she also killed the mother and is attempting to relinquish any lasting effects of a possible standing conspiracy against her.
Heck, she could have been thinking of the right way/time to kill the man, and, having failed to do so, killed someone else out of sheer ire.
In a fit of anxiety/panic, she could have killed the sister because of the mother's death.
All of those answers are psychopathic in different ways; anywhere from schizophrenia to personality deficiency disorder to intermittent explosive disorder.
It could be that you're not making up your own facts. Like I said, it's not a straightforward right or wrong answer. Make up what you want about it. The only things that cannot change are the things I've written down, everything else is left up to you.pffh said:
Funerals are family events. He was probably a relative. More precisely, her sister's husband. Fueled by psychoic love she wants the man for herself and kills her sister.
It says she "fails to get his name or number". Well maybe that's because she already had them. Or maybe she just learned it later, I don't know.
Ignoring what I just said, I read other peoples comments and saw the one that says,
"She thinks that if there is another funeral, she can see the man again"
It sounds about right.
It says she "fails to get his name or number". Well maybe that's because she already had them. Or maybe she just learned it later, I don't know.
Ignoring what I just said, I read other peoples comments and saw the one that says,
"She thinks that if there is another funeral, she can see the man again"
It sounds about right.
