A riddle about a funeral might reveal if you could be a psychopath or not.
According to Healthline, while ‘psychopathy’ is not a clinical diagnosis, the term ‘psychopath’ often refers to symptoms of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) which can include a lack of empathy and remorse and ‘manipulation tendencies’.
“A personality disorder is a lifelong mental health condition that affects how you behave and feel about others and yourself, often causing a high degree of distress or impairment,” the site explains.
“It may affect aspects of your life, like the way you think, how you feel, how you interact with others, and your ability to control your impulses.”
While very difficult to diagnose, some researchers looking into personality disorders have suggested that there could be ways of identifying psychopathic behavior.
Meanwhile, a study from 2011, published in the journal Cognition, assessed how people responded in certain disturbing scenarios.
The research saw scientists from the Columbia Business School and Cornell Universities provide a group of participants with a series of dilemmas and personality tests.
• One of the scenarios was about funerals. As per Business Insider, it said:
“While at her own mother’s funeral, a woman meets a guy she doesn’t know. She thinks this guy is amazing – her dream man – and is pretty sure he could be the love of her life. However, she never asked for his name or number and afterwards could not find anyone who knows who he was. A few days later the girl kills her own sister – but why?”