Are you mentally stable?

Serbian · 19-03-2003 5:40pm #1

Got this in an email:

Story:
This is a story about a girl. While at the funeral of her own mother, she met this 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 but never asked for his number and could not find him.

A few days later the girl killed her own sister.

Question:
What is her motive in killing her sister?

Give this some thought for a while before you scroll down. Don't cheat and be as honest as possible.

Answer:

She was hoping that 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 this test and answered it correctly.

If you didn't answer correctly - good for you. If your friends hit the jackpot, may I suggest that you keep your distance. (If you got the answer correct, please let me know so I can take you off my e-mail list......unless that will tick you off, then I'll just be extra nice to you from now on....

ykt0di9url7bc3 · 19-03-2003 5:48pm

I'm so going to hell!

Monty - the one and only · 19-03-2003 6:59pm

best not make me angry then...

Riamfada · 19-03-2003 7:00pm

did he turn up at the sisters funeral?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 19-03-2003 7:04pm

saw this ages ago, and I don't think I got it right that time...

still, I'm mighty offended.. I've always thought of myself as a mass-murder kind of fella

*sniff*

I'll hyave to work on my insane little habits

Moriarty · 19-03-2003 7:10pm

How exactly does it prove you 'think like a psycopath'? Your only given 1 piece of relevant information in the text, so your obviously going to base your answer on that. Its like me showing somone a rope tied to a branch of a tree with a noose at the end of it and calling them a psychopath for thinking its going to be used for a hanging.

ykt0di9url7bc3 · 19-03-2003 7:15pm

Would anyone consider me sadistic if i asked my friend who was lactose intolerant to get onto a crowded bus with a 2l carton of milk and sit right at the back and drink it...

pyure · 19-03-2003 7:34pm

i am not a psycho ! i dont care what your tests say !

you disagree with me and ill ****in kill ya !

po0k · 19-03-2003 9:22pm

Apparently I kill kittens.

I'm drinking hot choclate at the moment. With marshmallows. And vinegar.

Victor · 19-03-2003 9:31pm

I thought maybe it was the sister's husband / boyfriend. The statement is a bit bland and doesn't rule this out.

Originally posted by SyxPak
Apparently I kill kittens.

Have you had a problem with bed wetting or an inclination to set fires?

Caesar_Bojangle · 19-03-2003 10:41pm

it was the first thing that popped into my head, its probably down to a past experience

Lex_Diamonds · 19-03-2003 10:54pm

I was thinking the fella wanted to go out with the sister that died but the mother was against it so the sister and him plotted to kill the mother. The woman found this out from the guy so killed the sister because she knows her address and doesnt know anything about the other guy.
Anyway, im not a psycho, so its cool.

logic1 · 19-03-2003 11:08pm

Psychopaths are classically social predators with expert person manipulation skills. They have little or no conscience and break social norms with ease and emotional impunity hence killing someone close to you simply to meet a person you are infatuated with again without feeling any remorse or hesitation due to social norms and levels of acceptability may classify you as having the same thought process as a classic psychopath.

<cue Norman Bates music>

.logic.

logic1 · 19-03-2003 11:09pm

Originally posted by Lex_Diamonds
I was thinking the fella wanted to go out with the sister that died but the mother was against it so the sister and him plotted to kill the mother. The woman found this out from the guy so killed the sister because she knows her address and doesnt know anything about the other guy.
Anyway, im not a psycho, so its cool.

No, but you're definately watching too much "Murder she wrote".

.logic.

K!LL!@N · 19-03-2003 11:17pm

I asked maybe 20 of my friends that same question a while back.
You're not supposed to think for very long before answering.
You're supposed to say the first thing that comes into your head.
Only one of my friends gave the correct answer.
He didn't even hesitate.

Even if i'd been asked to give multiple reasons as to why the girl would kill her sister, i don't think i'd have come up with the correct answer.

There's definitely a distinct train of thought behind the correct answer, and it's actually quite clever.

Killian

carbsy · 19-03-2003 11:30pm

I just gave the damn cat some acid , that's all like!

Koopa · 20-03-2003 1:48am

thats ****ing stupid, why would the man know her sister?

i mean, he knew her mother (presumably) but since she herself doesnt know him, what makes her think he would know her sister?

suppose you go to someones funeral, whose family you dont know at all. does this mean youll go to all their sister/brother's funerals too? (if you answer yes, then youre a ****ing weirdo)

do you have to be stupid to be a psychopath?

Illkillya · 20-03-2003 2:26am

Originally posted by Koopa
thats ****ing stupid, why would the man know her sister?

i mean, he knew her mother (presumably) but since she herself doesnt know him, what makes her think he would know her sister?

suppose you go to someones funeral, whose family you dont know at all. does this mean youll go to all their sister/brother's funerals too? (if you answer yes, then youre a ****ing weirdo)

do you have to be stupid to be a psychopath?

you're a psychopath

DriftingRain · 20-03-2003 6:10am

HE HE HE HE I think everyone has a little bit of Psychopathy about them. I know in a rage of anger with my horrid temper I have been called psycotic? HE HE HE

Hobbes · 20-03-2003 7:53am

Originally posted by Moriarty
How exactly does it prove you 'think like a psycopath'? Your only given 1 piece of relevant information in the text, so your obviously going to base your answer on that. Its like me showing somone a rope tied to a branch of a tree with a noose at the end of it and calling them a psychopath for thinking its going to be used for a hanging.

Prehaps not, but if you then said "I am unhappy with my life" people would probably start taking you seriously.

pickarooney · 20-03-2003 9:18am

Originally posted by Koopa
thats ****ing stupid, why would the man know her sister?

i mean, he knew her mother (presumably) but since she herself doesnt know him, what makes her think he would know her sister?

suppose you go to someones funeral, whose family you dont know at all. does this mean youll go to all their sister/brother's funerals too? (if you answer yes, then youre a ****ing weirdo)

do you have to be stupid to be a psychopath?

Besides, the police would find her immediately - all they'd need to do would be to quiz a few psychos who'd all concur that it had to be the sister. At least I would.

bug · 20-03-2003 2:18pm

I sent this to five of my friends when this was going around on e-mail three girls got the right answer- which indicated they were psycopaths and the two guys got it wrong.

This to me indicates that women will give the correct answer because they are more emotionally motivated than men. But not necessarily psycopaths.

po0k · 20-03-2003 2:54pm

My God!.....THEY@VE GOTTEN TO YOU TOO!

Repli · 20-03-2003 2:59pm

Originally posted by Koopa
thats ****ing stupid, why would the man know her sister?

i mean, he knew her mother (presumably) but since she herself doesnt know him, what makes her think he would know her sister?

suppose you go to someones funeral, whose family you dont know at all. does this mean youll go to all their sister/brother's funerals too? (if you answer yes, then youre a ****ing weirdo)

do you have to be stupid to be a psychopath?

She's killing her sister on the presumption that there's a chance the man knew her sister aswell as her mother.

Big Chief · 20-03-2003 3:03pm

i thought it was the sisters boyfriend or something to.

And here my doctor was trying to tell me im a psychopath, bloody idiot wasnt worth the money i paid him tbh.

Koopa · 20-03-2003 4:46pm

Repli:
She's killing her sister on the presumption that there's a chance the man knew her sister aswell as her mother.

i know this, thats my point, she has to be bloody stupid to think that theres a chance that the man knew her sister as well.. i mean, why doesnt she go off and kill her neighbour while shes at it too, theres a chance he knows the neighbour too

Asuka · 20-03-2003 5:21pm

Originally posted by Lex_Diamonds
I was thinking the fella wanted to go out with the sister that died but the mother was against it so the sister and him plotted to kill the mother. The woman found this out from the guy so killed the sister because she knows her address and doesnt know anything about the other guy.

I was thinking along the same lines, except less convoluted

A

El Marco · 20-03-2003 5:34pm

I just figured the sister killed the mother and the other sister killed her in a fit of rage!

Robbo · 20-03-2003 10:01pm

That's a pretty dubious method of psychiatric assessment, if ever I saw one. You'd be better off learning off Rorschach Tests...

Space Coyote · 20-03-2003 11:25pm

Hmm, I thought yer wan killed her sister because her sister stole her My Little Pony and boiled it in a pot...

I suppose I'm only two-thirds psychotic as I hate liver but I do like certain types of beans and Italian wine

Victor · 20-03-2003 11:32pm

Originally posted by Serbian
Are you mentally stable?

God, no.

Originally posted by Robbo
That's a pretty dubious method of psychiatric assessment, if ever I saw one. You'd be better off learning off Rorschach Tests...

Wow I didn't get any of the sex bits .....

Horsefumbler · 21-03-2003 12:32am

just tell us the answer thisthing has been dragging on for to long (2days

)

Does it mean your a psyco if u say its because the sister was doing the guy because thats a very harsh way to deal with that situation?

Carbiens · 21-03-2003 9:38am

maybe someone could do a test on this test,

ask any 4/5/6 year old this question, i think they'd probably get the psychopath's answer.

not that im saying kids are psycho's (although...) but if you think about its just a simple logic question.

btw, surprising to myself, im not a psycho according to this test

Serbian · 21-03-2003 11:53am

Originally posted by Robbo
That's a pretty dubious method of psychiatric assessment, if ever I saw one. You'd be better off learning off Rorschach Tests...

According to the series of tests here, we are schizophrenic...

Kolodny · 21-03-2003 12:07pm

Yes and no.

lulu · 21-03-2003 12:33pm

Iv just been dignosed as a pyscho!!!!

Dun · 21-03-2003 5:22pm

I thought the sister went after the fella as well or something. I didn't think much of the Rorschach thing - as it said I think it had more to do with the mind of the examiner rather than the examined.

azezil · 21-03-2003 7:10pm

i'm confused, so the pidgeon done it?

smiles · 22-03-2003 3:04pm

I aint pyscho.

<< Fio >>

neoB · 22-03-2003 4:44pm

wow ..thats not a bad idea ..going after her sister to get his number...itwoudl only suck if it didnt work out btwn her eand the guy =/
dont see why not

go after your dreams

yossarin · 22-03-2003 5:28pm

Originally posted by neoB
go after your dreams

not with my dreams *shudder*

ps - the test would make more sense if the option was to kill the father after the mother (you could work Oedipus into it as well

)

Clintons Cat · 23-03-2003 1:48pm

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 this test and answered it correctly.

all that proves is that arrested serial killers are better at answering dumb ass questions set by psychologists.

For a start there is a presumption that the killer lacks the social skills required to ask for someones telephone number and yet is manipulative enough to kill to get someones attention.
This seems highly dubious assertation to make as most psychopaths and sociopaths are fully able to form regular social relationships and hold down regular jobs.being unable to Make social contacts would seem to be a hinderance to someone wishing to embark on a career as a serial killer.

The test might highlight a disposition towards Munchausen syndrome by Proxy but I doubt very much wheter this question is very useful ether in diagnosing or predicting such behaviour.

Are you mentally stable?

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