Just got this in my email, pretty interesting. See how you go. I got the wrong answer :)

Genuine Psychology Test

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 get it right, 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

ha ha ha, now I'm glad I didn't think of it. Hmmm should I try the question on the wife?....

:/

Um I don't know, but hows about she's a homocidal maniac who killed her mother and now has killed her sister for whatever indicia of homocidal rationales.

wow pretty interesting.

i didnt put much thought into it, first thing that came to my mind was she didnt want her sister to get involved with taking away this guy... if he ever returned.

im anti-pshcyo

oh dear. Is assuming that she also killed the mother a sure sign of psychopathy? :-(
http://www.lancerock.com/images/colormecyco.jpg

I was thinking the guy was her sisters boyfriend.

Oh f***, I was really proud of myself for gettting it, then I get pwned when it says "...you think like a psychopath".

Damn. Well, run with it I guess. You're all toast.

yeah i was thinking that the guy was the sisters boyfriend or something

after seeing tha answer it seems pretty obvious and i dont know why i didnt think of it

old

Now now power just because you got the answer right you don't need to get upset.

i thought the same reverend

haha.. i had a read of it.. then said oh.. to easy she wanted the guy to turn up at her sisters funeral... :P well damn, just when i get something right and its not good to do so! :P

good thing u live at coloundra and not in brissy ;) heheh

yeah i was thinking that the guy was the sisters boyfriend or something

lol, same here

I thought maybe it was because her sister pissed her off.

lookit Detective Robert Gorens the lot of us...

hahaha I posted this elsewhere - here's one of the responces..

I was thinking the boy was actually the very butch long-lost sister, and when she found out about it she was so upset and freaked out that she killed him/her.

hahaha well i didnt get it right. DAMN!

I think being able to see things from other perspectives doesn't make you a psychopath

damn i didn't get it right... :(

i thought maybe her sister dressed up like a man and she was infuriated with her prank... and i'm not even kidding, i was seriously trying to work out that possibility, but there wasn't enough information to suggest that...

Nope i didnt get it right!

something about her sisters boyfriends gemini?

hihi
hmm...

"I was thinking the boy was actually the very butch long-lost sister, and when she found out about it she was so upset and freaked out that she killed him/her."

thats what i thought..

i thought the guy sounded like me

I said she probably killed her sister because her dead mother had risen from the grave and was commanding her to kill. Boy I'm glad I got it wrong, I wouldn't want anyone to think I'm karazy ;D

i got it right:/

sassy you psycho!! haha

i thought the sister cracked onto the guy and that pissed the other sister off making her kill the sister. Obviously this wasnt the case.

I'm a psychopath!!

I thought several things:

Maybe she dosnt want her sister getting the guy (allthough how could she, unless she also met him.)

I also thought maybe she did her mother in and was just following with the sister.

I also thought that perhaps she was already upset with her mothers death and the frustion of not knowing or ever meeting this dreamguy brought her to kill her sister.

I had 3 goes and got them all wrong :(

Errr, given the information, what else are you supposed to 'think'... (b.t.w I cheated and just skipped straight to the answer)

I dont see how it makes you think like a psychopath.
Your analysing the information given to the most likely possibility.
Since it says she killed her sister, wanted this guys number blah blah blah, and then specifically asks you what's her motive, the quickest response of course will be to the relevant material, trying to relate it to the guy.
Its a natural thinking reflex to relate your answer to the given information.

You will find most people will think she killed the sister for a different reason until you ask "what was her motive"
In which case it makes the person really question her reason based on the information given - and that is, wanting to kill her for that fella...

Its a fairly reasonable answer and doesn't prove much at all.
Your analysing someone else's actions based on very little knowledge and from what you are given, its deliberately spoon-fed to try to give you the thought that she killed her sister for the guy.

I think the test is better to show whether you 'think outside the square' or not.
Whether you just take the information around you/fed to you and analyse it to form an answer, or consider other options/have an open mind.

Many arrested serial killers took part in this
test and answered it correctly.

I mean wow. I didnt think many non-serial killers would get it... Great comment.

Loki, you have read the responses from what people have written down. If you had of done the question properly, that is, have a think about it. Sure in Hindsight it is easy to say why she did it, but would you have got the 'correct' answer without seeing it?
I had a good think about it and when I read the 'correct' answer I was like.. well yer that is actually pretty obvious.

Also a phycopath dosnt mean your a killer, it is a personality type.


It is similar to the expirement where a bunch of phycs had people listen to various music with interest on If the lyrics of songs affected the mind.

One way they tested this was to have a simple word with a letter missing and you have to fill in that missing letter.
One word they used was h_t. What they found was that the people listening to volent lyrics were much more likly to fill the h_t with and i to make hit. While the other group were more likly to make a more peaceful word such as hat.

I guess what this question is saying is that people with a phycopathic personality are much more likly to come up with the correct answer, dosnt mean someone without a phycopathic personality cant come up with the answer nor does it mean that a phycopath will answer it correctly, they are just more likly too.

While the other group were more likly to make a more peaceful word such as hat.

I filled it with an O to make HOT... :D
In the "wow she's hot" sense :)

What does that make me?

And Toll - No I wouldn't have gotten the correct answer, I would have said I didn't have anywhere near enough evidence to form a proper opinion on her motive :P
Or in other words:- 'No Idea' :)

Maybe she was having a tantrum for being such a stupid idiot for not asking him for his number, and accidently hit her sister over the head with a brick... twice :)
(j/k)

Wouldn't, if you were a pschyo you'd explain how you killed your sister?

Like hog tied her and slowly drowned her in a bath full of sheeps blood while you stab her eye balls with white-hot metal stakes?

kandy has it all worked out :D
o_O

Kandy, a phycopath isnt a Killer. A killer is a killer.

You can have phycopathic scientists, teachers, engineers, taxi drivers (I'm sure we've all had a ride with them) and so on.

Loki, there is enough evidence to say why she did it. Mother Dies. Funeral. Guy at Funeral...
Death, Funeral. Guy....
Kill Sister, Funeral and the Guy should be there again.

'Cause and Effect' :p
What it is sayign is that people with phycopathic tendancies would have the sort of logical thinking that would have them more likly to quickly come to the conclusion that if they cause another funeral the guy would appear.

You are saying that you dont have enough information to come to any real conclusion.. that is because of the way you think, your probably not a phycopath :p

Well, I mean, the dude might know the mother, but not the sister right...
So the rest of the information (She killed her sister) is bullocks and useless :)

So yeah, I can't really form any real conclusion :)

I know what it was saying though.

Loki, there is enough evidence to say why she did it. Mother Dies. Funeral. Guy at Funeral...
Death, Funeral. Guy....
Kill Sister, Funeral and the Guy should be there again.

But this is what I was saying, this is the only evidence you are given...
The evidence that points to her killing the sister for the 'cause and effect' approach of getting him to appear again.

I understand what its sayin, but what I'm sayin is that there really is only one answer (that she killed her to get the guy to come back).

Whether you get it right or not determines if your (more inclined to be) a psychopath.
Problem is, someone might get it instantly (first assumption), whereas someone might consider different possibilities before drawing the most logical conclusion given the information provided.

And thus, get the right answer, but after considering what they know about the situation first (which isn't a hell of a lot - and seems, to me, deliberately to lead to the 'cause and effect' answer as you said)...

Still - I leave my answer at not being able to draw a -reasonable- conclusion... (innocent until proven guilty?)

I reckon that fill in the missing letter is a tad better, since there is a vast number of answers to choose from, with no analysis of any information to be mislead by - only your initial thought...

Problem is, someone might get it instantly (first assumption), whereas someone might consider different possibilities before drawing the most logical conclusion given the information provided.

Aye and this is why it isnt a definate, just that evidence points that those with psychopathic tendancies would see that killing the sister to see the guy would be a doable approach and stop reasoning there.

Without remorse, psychopaths charm and exploit others for their own gain. They lack empathy and a sense of responsibility, and they manipulate, lie and con others with no regard for anyone's feelings.

Taken from http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/robert_hare/3.html?sect=19

I got the answer correct. I thought of the question and came up with 2 answers.

My first answer was that she killed her sister because she was jealous because she found out that her sister knew the guy and was sleeping with him. I chose to stick with the second one because it seemed to be the most correct answer to me.

Took me 30-60 seconds to think of the answer.

I just took the thought of the man and the admirer into my head and then thought about death = man appear. Like when a baby cries, the mother would go to the cradle and stop it from crying, so the baby gets his reward.

I can assure you I have no killer nature in me.

Personally I think how your answer the question would give some form of indication of your personality type (obviously). For example, if you answered "correctly" i.e. she killed her sister so that she could see the guy again, might indicate that you're thinking like a phycopath -- supposely.

I personally don't to agree with this assestment but then again I'm not a phyciatist nor I belive this is a genuine test (I did get this an email after all) :).

However, lets just say if you answered, "I have no comment" or cheated would also indicate that you're not an impulsive person i.e., the kind of person that do not make a rash decision quickly or make your decision based on fact.

I just think it's interesting to read the answers the question in this thread. I myself thought that she killed her sister because her sister had an affiar with him and she found out later etc.

I reckon we need more of this kind of questions :) Anyone doing phy. at Uni what to post the questions ???! :)

Opec, yer it is like that. Arnt these the types of questions that Phyc evaluations ask?

Toll, yes I think so. I think they use similar test for jobs that are physologically demanding like Police, ASIO job or maybe even the SAS.

Obviously how they interprete your answers is subjectvie. However, don't forget that it also based on statistics. I mean those people who administer the test would know what kind of answers they're looking for. Since your answers would indicate your personality type -- if you're being honest in your answers.

Couple that with good Statistical analysis, I think it would be a pretty powerful and accurate reprentation of your personality. Obviously this one test won't to do it properly you'd probably be required to do a whole heaps of different things.

It's interesting nonetheless though. :) Like I said if anyone come across any more questions like this just post 'em (as long as they're within reasons) I don't mind being a test subject ;).

What they found was that the people listening to volent lyrics were much more likly to fill the h_t with and i to make hit. While the other group were more likly to make a more peaceful word such as hat.

haha i filled it with an 'i'.

that is a stupid test, it's fkn obvious why she killed her own sister even if you don't think like a killer.

that is a stupid test, it's fkn obvious why she killed her own sister even if you don't think like a killer.

Obviously you got the answer correct and a little upset. I understand :)