I absolutely despise email forwards. The girl who sent me this is super, but I just find forwards to be mind-bogglingly stupid.

Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom 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 this guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, so much her dream guy she believed him to be just 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 is her motive in killing her sister? (Give this some thought before you answer.)

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 the test and answered the question correctly. If you didn’t answer the question correctly good for you. If you got the answer correct, please let me know so I can take you off of my email list unless that will tick you off, then I’ll just be extra nice to you from now on. Be sure to share the test!

I wish this actually had the name of the “famous American Psychologist,” so I could look this up. Cause the study itself actually sounds like it would be interesting, which is why I posted it. Too bad it has to be delivered in the form of a forwarded email.

On that note, the guest on Coast to Coast tonight, Amanda Swisten, is going to be talking about serial killers. That’s the other reason I posted this. Supposedly Swisten is a model or something, and began to receive “unsolicited letters” from a convicted killer - so she began researching them. Which in and of itself is a rather weird sequence of events.

UPDATE!

Quick-witted readers pointed out the Snopes page detailing this forward as a hoax. Just for the record, I wasn’t saying that I believed it, but that the study of such a thing is interesting. It reminds me of the Benjamin Proverb Test given to schizophrenics back in the day to test for abstract thinking ability. It is an equally unreal-seeming test that just so happens to actually not be a hoax. So whatever this Snopes site says, I’m still curious about it. Snopes does have some worthwhile stuff to say on it though:

Let’s talk about why this isn’t real. As the Tire Nut legend so eloquently illustrates, just because someone is crazy doesn’t mean he’s also stupid. Psychopaths (also known as “sociopaths”) possess the same problem-solving skills that the rest of us do, and some of them have been found to be remarkably brilliant (e.g., Ted Bundy). The assumption that all sociopaths approach problems with a “Whom can I kill to solve this” mentality (and that sociopaths believe everyone else thinks this way as well) is an erroneous assumption based upon a false stereotype. Most sociopaths would find this question as illogical as the rest of us and ponder a whole range of other possibilities (e.g., why didn’t the girl strike up a conversation with the man at the funeral, examine the condolence book afterwards, or ask her sister about him?); rather than just blurting out the purported “typical” response, many of them would provide answers just as mainstream as those offered by us “normal” folks (e.g., one sister thought the other was involved with the mystery man and killed her sibling over an imagined romantic rivalry).

In other words, this isn’t a question where all the psychopaths would go one way and everybody else would go another. As a quick ‘n’ easy way to separate the sheep from the murderous goats, it wouldn’t work. Besides, no one hypothetical is ever going to reveal the state of any person’s mental condition; whole batteries of multi-item tests are needed for that. Entirely healthy folks can answer one isolated question in such a way as to indicate the possible presence of mental illness, just as severely ill folks can answer the same question in a healthy manner.

The appeal of this one-question pop psych quiz lies in its implicit promise that by using it on your friends, you can locate the psychopaths lurking in your circle of acquaintance and thereby protect yourself from them, or perhaps in the process of your answering it you’ll uncover some deep, dark secret you’ve been keeping from yourself. We like our world simplified whenever possible, and therefore anything that appears to be an easy-to-use tool will be quickly seized upon, even if it’s flawed.