Are you a Psychopath? Answer this question and find out! :)

This is a genuine psychological test.

It is a story about a girl.

While at the funeral of her own mother, she met a guy whom she did not know.

She thought this guy was amazing, so much her dream guy she believed him to be, that she fell in love with him there and then … A few days later, the girl killed her own sister.

Question: What is her motive in killing her sister?

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Faust76 · 46-50, M

Why is nobody a psychopath? I'm sure I've heard this one before though, but if the story is to provide information about the motive, I can immediately perceive both the "her sister was in love with him too" and "she hoped to meet him again" motives. However, I can at once tell this NOT in fact "genuine psychological test". Little spoiler, but I guess a psychopath might have trouble seeing how the two things would be connected at all, although I seem to recall the claim is that the "meet him again" is the psychopath answer. That just means you can put yourself in the shoes of that sort of psychopath, which would make all psychologists into psychopaths.

Sharky86 · 36-40, M

@Faust76 This is just a game by the way, the one you find on quiz-magazines. I don't like this kind of game too, I find it stupid. There are so many possible answers and they give you only one like that's the truth. Plz.
But sometimes I still try to do it XD

Miram · 31-35, F

@Faust76 I have a sort of rude question.

SW-User

@Faust76 Psychopaths (also known as sociopaths) possess the same problem-solving skills that the rest of us do, and some of them have been found to be remarkably brilliant. The assumption that all sociopaths approach problems with a “Whom can I kill to solve this?” mentality (and that sociopaths believe everyone else thinks this way as well) is an erroneous assumption based upon a false stereotype. Most sociopaths would find this question as illogical as the rest of us and ponder a whole range of other possibilities (e.g., why didn’t the girl strike up a conversation with the man at the funeral, examine the condolence book afterwards, or ask her sister about him?), and rather than just blurting out the purported “typical” response, many of them would provide answers just as mainstream as those offered by us “normal” folks (e.g., one sister thought the other was involved with the mystery man and killed her sibling over an imagined romantic rivalry).

In other words, this isn’t a question where all the psychopaths would go one way and everybody else would go another. As a quick and easy way to separate the sheep from the murderous goats, it wouldn’t work. Besides, no one hypothetical is ever going to reveal the state of any person’s mental condition: whole batteries of multi-item tests are needed for that. Entirely healthy folks can answer one isolated question in such a way as to indicate the possible presence of mental illness, just as the severely ill can answer the same question in a healthy manner.

Miram · 31-35, F

@SW-User That's why I said a psychopath would only opt for that solution if and only if there is no other way. It's good copy past though.

Faust76 · 46-50, M

@SW-User I don't really get you. Your question stresses "This is a genuine psychological test." I stated categorically in my response that it isn't, but (implicitly) played your game. There are several types of psychopaths, and indeed *some* would murder a close person for personal gain without a second thought, which is why I said "that short of a psychopath".

The defining quality of of psychopathy is lack of empathy (though some studies suggest some of them are just adept at switching it off), so they could have more trouble putting themselves emotionally in her shoes, if you were looking for a difference.

I agree with your writeup in general though, I'm just wondering why you're presenting it as if to refute my answer.

Faust76 · 46-50, M

@Miram What sort of rude question? o.O

Miram · 31-35, F

@Faust76 It is just copy-paste. I guess she found it to be interesting.

Well when I word it properly, I will PM It.

Faust76 · 46-50, M

@Sharky86 Pop psychology. I don't mind them, and they CAN be a nice brain-teaser, BUT the question claimed this is "This is a genuine psychological test." which I pointed out was bogus. It does remind me there was a recent study which suggested that there's a single question that can usually identify a narcissist: Simply ask them with a definition! But for the most part, psychologists don't use single question tests, ever, and this one has so many interpretations it doesn't even do good job in a multi-question test inventory.

SW-User

@Miram Thanks! That is from a Psychologist.

SW-User

@Faust76 No, I didn't refute your answer. I add it just to let you know. :)