Psychopath Test
Read the question, come up with an answer and then click through 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 man who she did not know. She thought he was ‘amazing’. She believed him to be her dream partner so much, that she fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him.
A few days later she killed her sister.
Question: What was her motive for killing her sister?
[Give this some thought before you answer. Click through to read the answer]
This is VERY interesting!
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.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackNo I didn’t answer it correctly in fact it was partially
a. There didn’t seem to be any possible motivation
b. I thought it was a trick question anyways and thought maybe the “man” was really her sister and she killed her out of anger.because
c. I don’t believe in “man/woman of my dreams”
But I’m glad I’m not a psychopath too.
Oops I’m a psychopath!!
Hooray, I’m a psychopath!
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The regular answer would probably be “because her sister was having an affair with him or something”.
That woman is a psycho.
I thought that the man was her sisters boyfriend, and she thought that if she killed her, he would fall in love with her.
Im a moron.
My little brother is a phycopath..
hes 9!
I honestly think that anyone would answer correctly… what are the other options??? why she killed her???? the only posibility was to see him again…
I thought she was pissed at her sister because her sister gave the man herpes and she didn’t like her siser anyway because her sister used to always piss in her coca-cola…(uhhhh no that’s not it)
Yes this shows what i have known to be true, not that there is any shortage of evidence. i am a psycho. yes i have a killer instinct, but ive known this since middle school. i never tortured kittens or shived strangers on the streetcar but i know i have it in me, and that i dont act on these impulses shows that i am a good person. I, like charles manson, have the voltage to do forceful things, but am also truly blessed by god and all things with the musical intelligence to influence and act through others. Also, what a good story to tell there kids!
Finally a test where you can get a 100% !! nice
But really, i thought: “Her sister got his number at the funeral and the woman couldn’t bare”. Now my mind wanders and makes me believe the sister was a slut who never really cared about lovingfull relations… Well, that just makes me a porn addict i guess 
(or a loving person)
I didn’t answer correctly. I thought that she thought her sister flirted with him or something.
DUH thats an easy one. i mean come on, its totally obvious. if she kills her sister she’s gonna get to see him again.
I thought that she ended up being her long lost identical twin sister, and the man was her husband, and she killed the sister so the man would think that she was the wife. Maybe being a serial killer is better than whatever I am.
If only it were that easy to test for insanity.
I don’t find it obvious that she killed her sister to see the man again. No where was it said that her sister knew him or that he knew her sister, surely at the funeral her sister would have spoken to him if he had known who he was. What would make him attend her sisters funeral?
i just thought she was really depressed by losing her mom and the guy of her dreams at the same time.
…really, though? It’s like a math problem. They give you the bits you should put together and the context, then, bam–stupid psychopath assessment.
What really intrigues me is why people will assume and pull things out of the air to try and get their answer… Or why they try to rationalize beyond a simple point.
I can see where most people would try to block out that kind of logic–murder being currently unacceptable by most standards… But think of it like a science experiment. If, by chance, I spilled vinegar on some baking soda and saw that it would fizz up, I would make the direct connection between the vinegar and the baking soda. I might try it again, at least just to be sure.
Of course, I will say that the woman will probably be sorely disappointed… That’s the point where anyone should start speculating.
I answered it correctly and telling the truth I think it’s a very simple question and the answer is just obvious
After a few seconds it’s pretty obvious. The trick is to ignore the reasons you construct in your mind, and just pay attention to what’s being said.
The woman wants the man. The man is not there. The man came to a family funeral. Therefore it could be argued that it could come to the next one.
No need to invent anything
i did get the answer correct, but then i realized i had seen this question and answer before(where i dont remember if i got it correct the first time)
What is interesting to me is how many people comment on how easy and obvious this question is….
It isnt meant to be hard or complex, the question was intended to see if you could think like a psychopath… if you could not figure out the answer, you could not understand the reasoning of a pyschopath. Ide have to agree with Maggot..”Of course, I will say that the woman will probably be sorely disappointed… That’s the point where anyone should start speculating.”.. Perhaps its worth raising the question of whether there is a greater understanding in this day and age of how people behave, though the answer seems obvious to me
Big sister got the guys number instead. ‘Lil sis came home one evening after a bitch day at work and as she went into her bedroom to get into something comfy was petrified seeing her sister humping her dream-man like a crazy dog on sheets that had been fresh only that morning. Something went cold in her chest. The feeling ran into her toes, her mind was without thought, her toes even were frozen like ice. The police had no idea what evil could have possessed someone - a sister - to kill her own sister in such a rage. The scene is too horrid too describe.
I answered correctly but I know I am not psycopath.Psycopath’s have lots of issues I don’t have any issues. Just little problems. little ones like finding places to bury the bodys. I’m not a psycopath…
Mine was probably the most abstract. I let the “she killed her sister because she found out she was with him” conclusion escape immediately for the simple benefit of the doubt that she’s not a murderer (though the true answer defies it anyway). My conclusion was that she met God at the funeral, loved him but couldn’t actually find him in herself. Her sister did find God and killed her unintentionally (car accident) which was an act of God taking her sister into his hands. Totally out there, I know, and I’m not even that religious. I didn’t want to keep it simple so it’s just how it cooked up in my bran.
Well I answered it correctly, my brother said: “she was embarrassed to find out the guy was actually her sister who had a sex change?”
This is actually a type of test called “Lateral thinking ability”
It is the type of thinking that mensa requires to be part of their organization, so it measures cognitive reasoning and creativity
Well, I had thought that it was something to do with the mother… like something in her will…
So, what does that make me?
this test is absolute bogus.
the suggestions are clear and the claimed “result” is like saying: “90% of psychopaths eat bread - so if you eat bread, you’re a psychopath”
Is it that certain that that guy would show up at her sister’s funeral? Just by showing at her mother’s? I mean, what a waste of a kill (probabily).
And why the hell should those two events be connnected? Falling in love with the guy has nothing to do with discovering that her sister poisened her mother. She could commit the murder to avenge her mother’s death and forget all about the man.
I said “because killing people is fun”. Which means I’m not a psychopath. Hurrah!
I answer correctly , she hope he would attend the sister’s funeral.why didnt she flash him some beaver or Googled him or she could have posted on Craig’s list horney old bat will travel for uncommitted sex
Hehe, wow I was way off. I thought possibly that she found out that that was her father and she was so in love with him that she killed her sister as so that no one would know she was going to try and get it on with her last remaining family member.
I guess being a competent problem solver makes one a psychopath. Ridiculous.
the fact that its called the psychopath test makes it much easier to accept the premise. it skews the results in my opinion.
It’s not obvious. If she kills her sister shes going to jail and will not be attending the funeral. And even if she does she’ll be chained to a police.
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hunhh… I thought her sister may have said something offensive to her sister causing the incident, or maybe there an argument completely off subject of the guy. So… uh guess I am safe.
I agree with Eddie.. Since it started out with “Psychopath Test,” I automatically started trying to think what would cause a psychopath to kill her sister. I came up with 3 things:
1. Her sister fell in love with the same man at the funeral and she found out about it. Wouldn’t a psychopath kill her sister for that?
2. I figured psychopaths might have random reasons afor killing someone, and she killed her sister because her sister found out that she killed her mother.
3. Or, I figured the man was her father and her sister promised their mother not to tell her.. But since the mother was now dead, the sister told. The woman then killed her sister because she kept it a secret all her life.
I think tht if the “Psychopath” part was left out of the title, I would have directed my thoughts differently.
Justin said:
“I guess being a competent problem solver makes one a psychopath. Ridiculous.”
Are you kidding me? Most, if not all, psychopaths are geniuses in their particular area of psychosis.
common now…even a kid wuda answer that…does that make ‘im a psychopath as well…i dont believe it..
Thank god i’m not psychopath coz i answer wrongly…thanx for sharing it
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The answers are! in the spectrum of behavioural development. some show talent for a writers’ creative imagination.
Sure glad I’m not !
However, I know who you are , I saw what you did AND I know where you live !!! - all of you !
OK stop that … ” I’ll BE BACK !!!
“Are you one?”…”No! are you one? two!”
is this where I put… LoL
The test is to see how casual you consider murder to be. If you see it as a means to an end even when the victim has no complicity in your goal then you can think like a psychopath.
The reason why the correct answer is not obvious is because no rational and sane person would consider that goal to justify the means especially given the meager likelihood of success. If you are able to do so then you either think like a psychopath or are very good at thinking outside the box.
I’ve heard this one before, but the fact is that there is only one way for her to go after you give such a short story. Now, if the story was about a page long or so and then someone guessed it, that’s the time to worry… but yeah, apparently I’m a psychopath (SCORE!!! now I have a reason for doing the things I do). The first time I heard this I guessed it before the story was over.
.. load of crap. I think the test probably showed that calculating evil people used their brains .. no surprise there. (That, and the majority of the public don’t tend to use their brains much. Look around you, who does?)
Snopes.com - it’s a bunch of baloney like most of the interesting stories that I Stumble Upon.
I’ve failed the test, I’m not a psycho…
http://www.webyaa.com/category/people
I find that when answering such questions, my gastric methane release rate (GMRR) doubles as well as the heptane and other byproducts emitted from my nether valve produces a miasma or stench which at least temporarily renders others incapable of independent movement or speech. Don’t you?
I think this test just proves that even psychopaths can solve basic problems.
With no more information than was provided, the only conclusion could be because she was hoping the guy would show up at the funeral. You don’t have to be a psychopath to come to the only conclusion possible.
I’m a psycho and I think she did it for the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. It’s always about the money. Doesn’t take a psychopath to figure that one out. Unless she did something like eat her or have sex with her after, then she’s the psycho. What freakin ever. Stupid loser anolagy
That’s so stupid! Just cause I got it right doesn’t mean I’m a psychopath - the answer is obvious! How dare you imply that I might murder someone! I’LL KILL YOU, YOU BASTARD!
…uh oh…
the man she fell in love with was her father and her sister was relay her mum her mum - she work it out from the father not see before and killed her syster for lying to her all these years. and haveing been brought up by her gran
I love how blindly people assume that this test is a definitive acid test for psychopaths without any backing whatsoever… The psychiatric community would be having an absolute field day if you could pick something like that out in one question.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/sister.asp makes nice reading.
It is a lateral thinking question and it does not mean you are a psychopath. Only that you have superior cognitive thinking ability.
Although I do believe that some psychopaths would also answer the question correctly but that they also have those skills.
Now the definitive definition of psychopath might be influenced by where to put all those bodies.
hehe
good grief!!! i guess the point is that you can deduce this answer without being psycopathic, but it depends on how quickly you get the answer… in any case this all exists on a continuum we all have a bit of the psychopath in us.
I don’t think that just this one question can say anything about ones psychopath potential. I suppose this question can just say something about ones intelligence - though I didn’t find the correct answer LOL.
But this answer:
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Shadax said,
I let the “she killed her sister because she found out she was with him” conclusion escape immediately for the simple benefit of the doubt that she’s not a murderer (though the true answer defies it anyway). My conclusion was that she met God at the funeral, loved him but couldn’t actually find him in herself. Her sister did find God and killed her unintentionally (car accident) which was an act of God taking her sister into his hands.
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appears to me not less pathological than the correct one LOL
Do you have what it takes to pick when someone is a pathological liar (as many psychopaths are)?
Tip #1 - don’t try reading their eyes - you’ll just become more bamboozled.
The girl was ‘the man’s illegitimate daughter and she fell in love with him because of the weird sense of “knowing” one gets when meeting their father for the first time. She killed her sister in hopes that she too was fathered by this man and he would show up to the funeral, the man would take pity on her, having lost her only sister and mother and would then be inclined to offer his daughter a place in his life, this offer would of course be taken advantage of by the girl. makes sense to me… but then again im a psychopath…
I thought the man was friend of her sister, so she thought of revenging her for snatching her “dream partner”.
I thought there was no real motive and she killed her sister by accident, car accident, etc.
I guess the psychopath answer wasn’t “obvious” to me. Good!
Well, I said because watching people bleed to death is a nice way to spend an evening, and her sister was an easy target, not to mention probably more entertaining than killing a complete stranger.
God, I am SO glad I’m not a psychopath, though. That could really ruin one’s day. =o
MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY GOT IT RIGHT AND ARE PSYCHOS ARE LYING.LOL. I JUST FIGURED THAT MAYBE THE SISTER WAS DATING THE GUY. I ACTUALLY AM A PSYCHO PATH AND STILL GOT THE ANSWER WRONG.GO FIGURE.
I thought, “So her mother will have company in hell”
But I guess I’m just old-fashioned.
I think the point is if you are given this scenario and think of a motive without the emotional context that is more similar to the thinking of a psychopath.
Wow, no for those of you who say it is a simple question with a simple answer are exactly what is meant by a psychopath. My obvious answerf was that she was so depressed and angry after losing so much in her life at one time that she lashed out when her sister did somthing wrong (anything). It never honestly crossed my mind to meet the dude again, for real. I asked my wife the question, and i knew exactly what she waould say. Bang– a psychopath, of which I already knew. Was a scary thing to do…..
I`m not a psychopath
she didn`t know the man, I don`t think that she had a motivation to kill her (except…if she really hate her sister).
On other side…if she really killed her sister…would she go to her funeral? [interesting]
Actually, the test seems to angle for a specific psychopath skill. To answer correctly, you need to be able to pare down a fictional person to the essential presented information. Useful for anyone who has to deal impersonally with large numbers of people, it is an invaluable skill for a psychopath. After all, you don’t really want to be wondering if that next potential victim has a family, or what they do on vacation. Everything goes much easier if one can view such people as ciphers.
I’m a psycho, apparently! Bwahaha. Because I kind of “got it” why would she kill her sister at once. See the twisted logic behind it…
i passed but i dont fill iam a psycho
Well I could still just be a stupid psychopath right?
I thought the same as Mackenzie, im not a psycho tho. *phew*
This test is fake
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/sister.asp
This test is fake http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/sister.asp
Oh.. so this test isn’t real then…
MY ANSWER WAS CORRECT, HOWEVER, I AM AN AVID READER AND ENJOY PBS EPISODES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MYSTERY SERIES SO I AM NOT CERTAIN RESPONDING CORRECTLY EQUATES TO HAVING THE MIND SET OF A PSYCOPATH. IRENE BARTLETT. HOLLAND, MICHIGAN
I got it right.
A lot of people say ‘because her sister was having an affair with him’.
Think people it’s not a hard fucking question. If this dude was at a funeral and you didnt even know him, chances are he knows your family. So why not kill your sister.
Dam, Im a psycho >.<
She thought the man would show up at her sisters funeral.
I just said inheritance…
Makes sense really.
It’s a bit bold to say that this is actually a test of higher thinking skills. If this type of problem had been set up in another context with no moral repercussions, I should think that some people who got this test “wrong” would have gotten the alternative test “right.” Clearly, the information about the man is imperative to the answer, but I could not personally justify killing my sister for a man I’d just met. Therefore, my mind went immediately to other explanations, even though I knew they did not necessarily follow from all the evidence given. I’m pretty sure a person’s ability to apply/not apply emotional dissociation to a logical problem is what the test is trying to quantify, if it’s even meant to be taken seriously at all.
This isn’t the original test that the psychologist used. It looks like someone wrote this down by memory because the test goes:
A lady falls in love with a man at the funeral of her mother.
She never gets his digits, and doesn’t know anymore than his name.
She meets the guy again in a month, and marries him a year later.
How did she meet him again?
Go figure
This makes detectives psychos
I answered the question correctly, instantly! But that doesn’t make me or anyone else a psychopathic thinker. Just a lateral thinker.
It is a matter of identifying cause and effect.
She saw the man at a funeral, cause (funeral), effect (man being there).
So she tried to duplicate the cause to achieve the same effect. Psychotic yes, unfathomable, certainly not.
I thought perhaps the man was a hitman hired by the sister and the woman was angry that her mother was dead and that the man of her dreams was a hitman…? That explanation doesnt sound as good as it did in my head.
i thot the gal wanted the guy 4 himself and mayb the sis was prettier
I don’t see how anyone could get it wrong. I got it right right away. Although, I have been diagnosed as a psychopath. It does seem like an obvious answer though.
C’mon…
what kind of person falls in “love” with a complete stranger, doesn’t even talk to the guy (or she’d have his name) at her mother’s funeral?
I figured she was just another Republican.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/sister.asp
i answered right cuz i read this before but i answered wrong the 1st time
Terrible test. Psychopaths are emotionally detached and would not think of love as a viable justification for killing someone. It seems highly unlikely that the same man would return to the second funeral. And not only are psychopaths emotionally detached (and would thereby not consider “love”, which they typically do not feel, to be a viable justification for killing someone), but they would not usually be stupid enough to kill a close relative. A woman who does this is more likely to be insane than anything else. Thinking like a killer or insane person is not the same as thinking like a psychopath.
Only stupid “psychopaths” who aren’t really psychopaths fit this scenario. 1) They would be stupid because it is completely illogical to think that a random man would reappear at another funeral of yours. Chances are they won’t. 2) It’s stupid because the chances of getting caught are extremely high. 3) This person isn’t really a psychopath, because psychopaths are not emotional enough to feel love. Therefore, love would not be a reason to kill. In short, this test is fundamentally flawed.
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