Psychopaths (Adult and Otherwise)

12% but I lied my ass off ha ha!

waaay xpost but my blurb was the same as sarahel's and roz

Absolutely stunned to find out that I'm posting to a board filled with borderline psychopaths. Had no idea until this thread

me either! i am the least psychopathic among us if this quiz is to be believed! 3%!!

Manipulative lying is probably second nature to any adult psychopath with an IQ over 85. Seems to me any test for psychopathology would have to be pretty damn clever to disguise the 'socially unacceptable' responses and lure an adult psychopath into the self-revelation.

aimless otm. i scored 56% but it was prob cuz i avoided the scale's extremities. yeah, that's the ticket.

"Oh, lawsy me! I would never dream of doing anything remotely like that!" probably correlates to zero psychopathic tendency, while "as a rational being I try to avoid absolutes, because it is impossible to foresee all the circumstances in advance" probably correlates to some higher percentage of psycho tendencies. Taking candy from a baby.

wtf is this the antebellum south?
who says "Oh, lawsy me! I would never dream of doing anything remotely like that!"

wah i do declare

who says "Oh, lawsy me!...

Psychopaths taking multiple choice tests, obviously.

http://shepherdspiehole.typepad.com/.a/6a0167621b7ded970b019103c4dba5970c-250wi

61% and i went soft tbh

did you say Lawsy me y/n

Never yet

36%

27%

But I cheated obv and my real score is like a million percent

Was King Leopold II a psychopath?

27%

Same here. Popular score this.

33%

lol people are so easy

21% http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

After careful study of these results, I note that people are never any percentage of psychopathic which is not divisible by three. I confidently conclude from this fact that it is impossible to be 100% psychopathic, but 99% is the most one can hope for.

Nonsense! Just cut at thirty-three and a third.

Hit "agree" on everything and you get 100%

which btw gives the text
"You can play hardball with the best of them! You know what you want and are not afraid to go for it – even if it means bending the rules occasionally and putting a few noses out of joint on the way. Nothing fazes you. You are decisive, self-confident and pretty much up for anything. You are a ‘means-to-an-end’ person. For you, it’s not necessarily a matter of right or wrong, but of what gets the job done. ‘Bring it on’ is your mantra, but to help those around you keep their heads, you should learn some tricks to help you temper your self-satisfying tendencies..."

you get 100%

I am sorry. These results are anomalous and must be thrown out as suspect.

Experiences have me suspecting that some of these parents might be plausibly described as psychopathic or sociopathic, or just burnt out, in denial, etc.---from Irrationally Angrier:
This deserves its own thread, but right now I'm too depressed by latest incident: parents who let their children run wild in public.

― dow, Sunday, December 29, 2013 7:01 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

With the parent a few feet away in most cases, but also those who just fucking drop them off and leave (in malls where I'm working/consuming, libraries, etc)

― dow, Sunday, December 29, 2013 7:03 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And the ones who are a few feet away may either flip put if anybody says anything, or get this really creepy smile (sometimes while leaving with kid, even). But mostly the former. A few do get seemingly sincerely apologetic and worried, like they suddenly realize what they've done, or not done. I would never ever ever say anything unless it's my job, which occasionally it has been (gently someone to take her child outside after child has puked all over store: not a good idea).

― dow, Sunday, December 29, 2013 7:08 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gently *asking* someone, that is.

― dow, Sunday, December 29, 2013 7:09 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

those ppl are not sociopaths

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/life-as-a-nonviolent-psychopath/282271/

he sure does self-diagnose as a lot of fucking things, im not surprised pyschopath happened to be one of em

has he taken the test for hypochondria has he

i'm interested in psychopaths like everyone else but they sure are trendy right now. "psychopathic" has basically replaced the word "selfish".

whatever happened to plain old narcissism.

the average selfish person has a lot to answer for these days

good luck getting a narcissist to own up to being 'average'

sorry, the above-average selfish person

i'm interested in psychopaths like everyone else but they sure are trendy right now

feel the same about unicorns, wonder if they have similar ontological status

I got 48%.Think I might retake and see if that's consistent. Mind on other things,

i got 12% on that test. i don't trust those kinds of surveys at all -- people don't know themselves -- but that score was in keeping with an argument i had with a friend recently where she said (more or less) that i can never relate to ordinary people because i don't understand the homicidal impulse.

There's a big difference between not understanding it and not indulging it.

yeah, this was about me allegedly not wanting to kill people whereas most people allegedly do. it was sparked by a thing on npr where a soldier claimed that most people (himself included) join the military because they deeply want the opportunity to kill someone. i was skeptical about this and my friend thought i was being naive.

i think that test mostly measures what people want to think about themselves, which is also something that impacts their behaviors. i guess i disagree with fallon (the nonviolent psychopathic neuroscientist) because i don't think inherent brain structure is the main determinant of how selfish people allow themselves to be.

that soldier and your friend are psychopaths fyi

The soldier is. My friend is just trying to be realistic about people's interest in violence, as evidenced by entertainment etc.

I don't know if that's true any more than liking a bacon sandwich is an expression of a desire to slaughter pigs but there is something to the idea that enlistment does reveal something about your comfort level with being complicit in killing people.

yeah saying "most people want to kill people" is a mischaracterization of the discussion; the main point that was raised is that there are natural inclinations to violence that are repressed and certain people look for outlets for these inclinations, one of the most dangerous of which being the military. freud said the same thing in civilization and its discontents. there's something to it, probably, even though i personally don't feel like society has repressed any of my inclinations toward aggression. freud felt like i did on this account; certain drives are more present in certain individuals, many of whom do not exhibit antisocial behavior.

i am listening to deafheaven right now. maybe music like this is how i deal with my aggressive energy, and maybe my self-identification as a pacifistic sort of dude -- which comes from my upbringing -- makes it so i don't like to recognize this aggressive energy. see, this is why i don't trust people when they diagnose themselves with things. it's a cheesy quote but vonnegut said "we are who we pretend to be" and i think this is true.

or at least, in large part true. self-described psychopaths seem to like the idea that they are different than other people, and to value certain psychopathic traits such as cunning and worldly success over traits like empathy and caring. maybe they have this value system -- and subsequent ego ideal -- because of a malfunctioning amygdala but maybe not. probably the amygdala is just one part of the equation and we have no way of knowing how big a part it plays.

Not all violence is pathological.

this story is insane, and this guy is def a psychopath:
http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1993/february/the-professor-and-the-love-slave?single=1