How To Tell If You’re A Psychopath With This Simple Test
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Would you push one person in front of a train to save a larger group of different people? If you answer yes, then you may be a psychopath. The key difference between a psychopath and average person's brain is their ability to make a decision in a personal dilemma. The emotional part of a psychopath's brain has a neural curfew which limits them from thinking twice about ending one person's life to save others.
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But I saved 5 people's lives
Ventura Serrano but you committed murder...
blue SNOT yeah but he doesn't have another choice...
LeviHan Shippa the video asks if I want to save the 5 people then I'd have to push the fat one. I dont want to save the 5 people.
blue SNOT I would. I would sacrifice 1 life for 5.
1 for all man
If a key characteristic of a psychopath is their lack of responsibility and empathy, why would they even bother to intervene in this situation in the first place?
Yes correct , this video gives a wrong explanation on psychopathy. A psychopath would never even bother to help them in the first place.
Yeah, I was thinking I’d be more likely to watch in morbid fascination
@@robertarnold6192Are you a psychopath?
Come on, guys. Psychopathy means no empathy, not no self-interest. Psychopaths are opportunistic too. Saving those 5 people will probably lead to rewards (gifts, social status, etc). I would imagine that's reason enough for any psychopath.
Just because a psychopath does what others may perceive as the correct answer doesn’t mean they have empathy. Think of it as a reflex. I am a nurse. Even when I am not at work I am still a nurse. If there is someone who needs my skills then I will help. I do this because that is my training. It has nothing to do with what is the right or caring. It’s just a reflex.
If someone is fat enough to stop a train, they're too fat for me to push off a bridge and is probably too heavy to be on a typical bridge to begin with.
congo ur not psycopath ur genious
you said big brain.
You missed the point
Your like one of those people in a debate who brings up a irrelevant fact
@@speshalkmf9273 Youre like one those people who can't tell satire in a comment
you could bait them off the bridge
What if I am that fat guy and I jump?
Then you're a philanthropist and a martyr. Or overweight and suicidal, who knows?
/r/2meirl4meirl
n0nTox!c you would be neither because you would be dead
n0nTox!c well you are suicidal and fat
n0nTox!c and also dead
I’m not strong enough to push someone off a bridge let alone a larger person even if I were a psychopath.
Keanu Herrera same honestly
Plus, how do u know they will even land on the tracks. If the fall is high enough to kill the fat dude, he could easily not hit the target. If u snapped their neck first then u cud maybe aim better but there’s too many unpredictable elements here.
The risk of failing is high, this could end up giving the person legal backlash. There’s way too many risk for a logical person, even a psychopath, to get involved
same, i'm tiny lol
adrenalin is hell of a drug
As someone diagnosed with primary psychopathy personally I wouldn’t give a sh*t what happens to any of them, there’s nothing that benefits me out of the situation but watching what happens.
Well hello there Mr. Psychopath
@14BasedPepe88-pw1tcmaybe but i thought the exact same thing as him
Shiver me timbers
Suppose youre talking with someone who can grant you a second life. How would you go about proving someone is a psychopath publically?
This seems like the factually correct answer. A true psychopath would not care either way.
Who else said hell no because they thought the 5 people under the Bridge put themselves in that position and its not the big dudes fault that they were that stupid
I thought the same.
But the guy is fat
@@january2627
They have a point.
That and I didn’t want to get involved 🤷♀️
yeah exactly my thoughts
Just because I'd PUSH THE MAN doesn't mean I'd be happy about it 😂
A psychopath would be very happy about it and they will take pleasure in watching the process of the fat guy dying
@@ukaaqlima6816 so i m psychopath?
@@dem0lishersbrother133 perhaps
It's not about pleasure, It's about solving a problem without emotion. None of the outcomes would make a psychopath "happy" It's just that without emotion you would be willing to do things others wouldn't.
Yeah exactly but it seems like you'd be saving more people. Wish there was another way in this situation. I think if I knew the people personally it would make it so much harder
This question is so contrived it makes it hard to suspend disbelief enough to be taken seriously.
ik I'm responding to this 4 years later but, where would I fall? I said no to pushing the man off the bridge simply because I wouldn't care what the outcome would be.. so am I like a super cool alien who has transcended the human thought process, or am I just weird
@@Rixcinsimple, you just lack general compassion. And possibly, common courtesy. Both basic human traits.
Exactly. I am thinking why the hell are there five people on one track not able to see or move from the train coming straight for them?
The question is just low quality clickbait
It's the Trolley Problem. It makes more sense when we learn about dual process theory in moral psychology.
I would be worried about being charged for a murder. If it was just the moral implications, I would push … but the thought of the 5 people seeing me push him, and the thought that it may not even work.
Exactly! Unless I get immunity from pushing the big dude, I'm just gonna watch it all happen
@@9ree741 I think I'm screwed. First scenario I thought it doesn't really matter either way and for the second I'd probably just watch the train squelch the people with the big fella...
Exactly, irl I would do nothing with five whole witnesses, I wouldn't be blamed for doing nothing. after all I'm up on a bridge
Was looking for this comment. You certainly can’t ask a lawyer this (to test for psychopathy).
This is entirely wrong and completely stupid.
EDIT: I wrote this comment as an arrogant kid and left no explanation. Here's my reasoning, 3 years later:
If a non-psychopath chooses to push the man they will feel awful afterwards. However, that doesn't mean you cannot push the man without being a psychopath. Some people may believe it to be the objectively right thing to do, an may still choose to act in this way, regardless of how sad and guilty they'd feel after committing the act.
In my opinion, once you are a part of the situation, it is your responsibility to act for the greater good. You cannot expect to be able to suddenly opt out of the situation and take no blame for the outcome. It is up to you to make the right choice as YOU have the power to do so. Hiding from responsibility when you think you should be acting for the greater good doesn't make you definitely NOT a psychopath, it makes you indecisive. Acting doesn't automatically make you a psychopath (although a psychopath is still probably still more likely to act), it means you are doing what you believe to be the right choice. What IS the right choice is another debate, and if you make what you truly think is the right choice then that's all you can do. In my opinion, of course.
You can push the man without being a psychopath, and to say otherwise is extreme tunnel vision.
Well it's not completely wrong, because psychopaths lack empathy, but the test just doesn't really factor that some poeple would rather 1 dude to die rather than 5.
Not really
well the first scenario is you're FORCED to choose, but the second scenario isnt. on the first one, YOU chose how many lives you'd save, while on the second one, you didn't save the 5 heroically, but instead you "heroically" murdered the big guy. even with the most justice spirit, one would not just willingly push the big guy to save the other 5, since the sense of justice actually came from the heart rather than brain-- though uses logic to get the justice through-- and obviously someone with a heart, won't sacrafice anyone when they're not being forced to. what this video meant is literally just that. it's just about psycopath got less to no empathy. not that everyone who got less empathy is a psycopath-- they even said 'maybe'. so no, it's not entirely wrong and stupid.
Did you know that if you breathe then you might be a psychopath
Based on multiple studies; it's not entirely true, but its at least 80% percent accurate.
In the scenario one, there's no choice if you want to kill 5 people or one, but in the scenario two, it changes. *Why?* Good question.
The big guy does not technically have to be in your family to be personal, if that's what you think, by the way.
In the first scenario, you are involved and you will kill either one or two; you don't decide if you kill or not, you just decide how many. But in the second scenario, you can save the people by killing a human, or not doing it knowing that you were not involved and it was not your fault.
If you think it is not your fault, that will give you the confidence it is; you were *not* involved. But in the case you throw them against the train, you murdered a guy!
In scenario one you did two, but you didn't have the choice to not murder them without it being your fault. You just had to murder. However in scenario two, you can be sad that they died and you could've murdered to help it (which you'd get over quickly), or murder a guy in order to be involved and feel "good" about yourself, but you won't, really.
I hope I made myself clear and not difficult to undestand. I wrote it in multiple lines so you could understand it with different words.
What is this, 2009?
A year.
matsomo Not really. Its just these people ran out of ides and started posting shit.
no
matsomo no it's end in 1950
Congrats you have 209 likes
Notice that the test also shows that the psychopath would have saved four people. This fact should not be lightly dismissed. The psychopath would have served a socially useful purpose in survival terms, though most of us find it repugnant and would not bring ourselves to push the guy off the bridge. The psychopath would have been a useful guy in an evolutionary context, and there is a reason why they are born as a predictable ratio.
Also there are seemingly plenty of psychopaths working in universities and as surgeons etc who reportedly do a great job. They are potentially dangerous but then aren’t we all? Stupidity is extremely widespread and dangerous in the hands of criminally minded political system and media.
Mindblowed fr
Why would the psychopath even care to contemplate saving the 5 people in example two?
i mean you saved 5 ppl
you can play friends with them
you can make them do whatever
you saved their lifes
I completely agree
So he can take their wallets later.
Exactly, I could care less. They aren’t important to me.
Anybody else come here for reconfirmation?
I guess I might be a psychopath
SG Oak welcome to the brotherhood 😅
Welcome to the club
Raptorex Scarpion
This is America
this test is bologna the question is a no brainer
FOR ANYONE
Wait,
why would psycopath care about the 5 people though?
Psychopaths have a different view on the situation. They are still people that are trying to do good for the world they just don’t understand that what they are doing is wrong. They care about the 5 people because the human brain is obligated to do so unless given a reason otherwise.
I'm officially a psychopath
@fbi
what would happen instead is you would push the guy, no match for a fast speeding train it will kill him and the other 5 people and you go to jail
I would if laws didnt arrest me for a murder. That's 80% net gain. And it's huge.
It's not the person who pushed the large human a psycho, it's the person who tied the 5 people on the tracks
Honestly, I won’t freaking care. I’d just go over the five people and pretend I didn’t notice.
👀Psycho😂
I'd probably gonna ignore that scenario and wait until someone deals with it
What if you cant push him cause youre too small in comparison so you just let the scenario happen as it should?
Just get a big rock and smash it at the back of his head while he's preoccupied watching the train
i know, i even wouldn't get in my mind to push him as how would I think that he could stop a train, this "simple test" could be better described as "stupid test"
it's theoretical and ethical, not physical. grow a brain sometime@@jaime1428
If you say Yes to push the man over the bridge then it might be true you're a psychopath, simplest way of thinking is that: you won't ever want to comit a murder in a real life even to safe another 5 people because your brain just keep saying don't push the guy. A normal person won't ever push anyone down to the bridge because they're to scared to do such thing, if you push that guy in that situation, you may not have "scare" of "death / blood" which leads in psychopath behaviour
This isn't much of a psychopath test than a ethical dilemma question which is usually used in court studies and what not.
I said no to both scenarios. I would leave things as they are, because even if more people die, I can't actively choose to kill one person.
Maybe that makes me extra psychopath
I agree with you, maybe we are psychopaths or maybe we just value life in general in that we can’t actively be a part of ending someone else’s.
The issue with this test is that you have to think about social consequences. I think “which one will make me look better”
I don't care about how i'd look.
Saving people's lives is better, than image.
People are free to think whatever they want.
well, shit.
edit: just kidding i would never do that, but i wouldnt like to see 5 people getting killed right in front of me either. i would probably find another solution.
Same
He might be a psychopath if he did it emotionlessly and without any hesitation.
But doing it while knowing that you are saving 5 lives and that they would ALL DIE if you didn’t while feeling it difficult to do emotionally, then you are probably not a psychopath.
Both average person and phychopath knows what is good or bad. Phychopath just don't have emotion
I was worried I am actually a psychopath
Same
Basically would you rather murder 1 person and save 4 or would you rather do nothing. The average person does nothing. It’s that simple.
Having to be in any of these situations would be personal and a dilemma.
When your friend feels something do you feel it? When you hurt someone, do you feel sorry? Those are the only questions you need
Exactly
“I feel badly Only if the consequences are bad for me.” -psychopath
Thank god I'm not a psychopath, I would choose to solve the overpopulation.
I thought you were Justin Y. 😂 rip
You can state it simply as you cannot push someone innocent,it's not his fault that he's here at wrong place on wrong time so you can't really that's murder....
being a psychopath doesn't mean you're a criminal, it is fine to be a psychopath
12 edgy year olds would comment "I guess i am..hehe :3"
Wanting Saving more people more people doesn’t make you a psychopath but it does
Wow 😎
You my mind didn't even flich I was like yep push him
If there big enough to stop a train
1. There ain't no way in HELL your moving them an inch
2. If there fat enough to stop a train, they ain't gonna live much longer
I’m not a Psychopath I just feel little to no emotions plus it’s hard for me to have sympathy for things I don’t care about as long as I benefit from it that’s all that matters to me
sociopath momen 💀
Same.
Vsauce really did this exercise and it was pretty messed up
If you’re a psychopath you wouldn’t care about saving anyone.
Even the person is huge or skinny, pushing that person will not save those 5 people.
That’s unreasonable
Well I think I can push that heavier guy over without being a psychopath, because even if the problem is personal or whatever, it doesn't have to affect the decision. It may be hard to do so, but I'm saving 5 people nevertheless.
Maybe more accurate way to do this test would have been repeating the first question, but changing the 1 person you have to run over with a loved one or a family member. That would have been personal I think.
Why did it have to be a black guy???
Jay Coleman honestly
Jay Coleman What’s wrong with that? Nobody would care if it was a white guy. It literally doesn’t matter stop acting like it does.
I just took another CZcams quiz of psychopath and they didn't even tell what my score meant and now I am considered a psychopath from this video
“I’m not a psychopath. I’m a sociopath. There’s a difference. You see a psychopath is insane, he can’t distinguish between wrong and right. A sociopath knows the difference, he just doesn’t have a conscience. Ya know? So he doesn’t care” - Pretender 2001
That's like the opposite of a phychopath they know good and bad jut they don't have emotions
Music to my ears when somebody is screaming to death
I'm not a psychopath. I'm a high functioning psychopath.
me who would simply walk away finding those people dumb for lying there
The train question has always seemed stupid to me. There are too many factors to consider.
I tried to push the big guy, he retaliate, now 6 peoples dead.
What’s if, I think killing one person makes me look like a hero, and now I have 5 people who owe me their lives? It seems like a vital tool to get things…
I stand there and watch with my new friend Tony. We bonded over the trauma.
Making hard choices or a bad thing to save people isn’t bad. All that matters is if by the end you are in tears cause if I pushed someone off a bridge to save people I would not be able to live with myself even knowing I saved 5 people
From a different angle.
Saving 5 lives by killing 1 you will spend the rest of your life unable to live with yourself and likely incarcerated for murder. If you go through that thought process then it's more psychopathic to save yourself and the 1.
It's the Trolley Problem. It makes more sense when we learn about dual process theory in moral psychology.
I don't think I would get involved in the train scenario. I wouldn't want to live with the guilt of choosing who died...
A psycho wouldn’t incriminate themselves to save 4 additional people.
Would you push the large man?
Me: That's not how trains and physics work.
i couldn’t have cared less in any of the situations in the first place
What kind of train stops from running over a human? Is this some kind of wood fired Thomas the Tank Engine?
I said no to both because what was happening isn't your fault. Interfering with a scenario like that would only be dragging yourself into it.
Me who wanted to to not push the guy so I can watch him suffer while looking at the 5 people dying and waiting for another train to come by so I can push him off this time. I don't think I'm a psychopath but I'm definitely a murderous person.
There's no point pushing him Infront of a train that would crush all of them eventually.
What a way to gas light a bunch of people into thinking they're crazy... smh
Memer psychopath on their way calling each other a "pro gamer move"
If the train has that switch then it also has an off switch
How am I a psychopath? I only said "Hell yeah, that person would be a 'hero' " 💀
the 2yo psychopath moved the 1 person to the same track with 5 person, and knock them all 💪
A psychopath would watch and see what happens without any panic. Then continue his/her day without a care.
My wife pass this test as a psychopath and it is obviously not one, she is working to save other people lives, it is kind and good with people, is is sensitive and always care for others. Anyway, I made the same test, at first I was thinking I would not push the fat man over the bridge, so I am not a psychopath.
After some strange things that happen with my mind in the past few months I decided to make more tests similar with this one, tests that show who you are or if you are a psychopath. I suspected one of my collaborator to be psychopath so I found more things about this condition. Many of those things about psychopathy sound familiar with my behavior and, surprise, I am passing those tests with over 30 points now which qualify me as a psychopath.
I always felt that something is wrong with me, I had problems since my childhood, I've been involved in many fights, I was punished, I killed animals, I stole, I lied, I took drugs and I don't have regrets for what I've done ... etc. Some of those problems continued in my adult life, like fights, drugs, many relationships with girs ... etc. I have a normal life now but in my mind is always a war between good and bad, even if I know that something is bad, if I feel to do that I go with the wind, I am fearless and I take risks but in the same time I analyse everything and I try to stay out of troubles, if troubles happen I am trying to find a way to get out clean.
Sometimes I fill I want to destroy the entire World and sometimes I am a peaceful and a very nice person, that is how everybody know me. I have success in my career, I am independent, I have a beautiful wife and a quiet life. I still have moments of depression, hate, love, jealousy, passion, anger, Wrrraaaaaaaaaahhhh! I don't know what it is. What I know is that when that anger explodes in me I am capable of anything and I can put the ones near me in danger.
Let's get back at the train test. If there would be a chance to save five people and kill one instead I would definitely save the 5 people. But you know what, this problem has no logic, I could not save 5 people pushing a fat man in the front of a high speed train, it would smash all of them and I would be judged for murder, if the police catch me :)). Anyway, it would be a hard decision to take and if I would be there I would definitely evaluate all of the possible circumstances with the speed of light. That is what I wanted to share. If there are more people like me out there please share your experience with me, I am curious to find more about this. Thank you!
I would not sweat it. I also scored high on the Hares checklist and several doctors gave me the ASPD stamp after being my honest self.
Still having depression. You see. Having A bad day is sometimes enough to get a stamp.
You aren't a psycho then, you're just a mentally ill narcissist. A test also doesn't diagnose you with ASPD, a psychologist does.
I would push the guy but also look around before i did if anyone could catch me and also I don’t like grotesque fat people so really its a win overall.
"I would definitely evaluate all of the possible circumstances with the speed of light." calm down speedy gonzalez
what if i just stopped the train with my magical telekinesis
The argument is critically flawed. Non involvement bears no threat of prison.
Yes, if I throw the guy I'll get involved so I could later be sued by his family so, I won't do anything
@@shinchannohara5621 you could be charged with murder. better off doing nothing. grab some Faux King pop corn
A psychopath wouldn't concern himself with the lives of mortal beings to begin with.
No point in wasting ur time over things that are bound to die either way just over a longer period of time.
Well I'm a psychopath
I am not perfectly happy pushing him off, I am terribly sorry to do that but he saves 5 lives.
My first thought At the second question was “ would I be able to push him with my strength alone?”
Those ARE NOT the same situations.
the first situation, you are forced to MAKE a decision, you just cant exit the train and not get involved in it. Youd have to make a decision since youre the one driving the train, otherwise however, im free to do what i wanna do, im not confined to it. I'll just go about my day and pretend it never happened because why not? The world is working, 5 people got on the train because of their actions and that doesnt have to do with me.
Who's stupid enough to sleep on tracks. The question itself is so dumb and now a bunch people think they're psychopaths
The only thought I had was that there’s no way a persons body is gonna stop that train so it might as well be 5 and not 6.
Id probably so "Oh well either way someone's dying" than I would leave
saving 5 people is better then saving one
make faster decisions
I think I thought more logically in not pushing the big man because if I push him I would save those 5 but still legally I'll not be a life saver but a murderer and I don't want to be a murderer. Now during letting those 5 people die, I would never feel a pinch of emotions that's for sure. So what this really makes me??
That train is travelling so fast, it will kill all of them anyways including all the passengers inside.
Psychopaths truly are natural born villains
Well at least i saved 5 people...
Well, the guys heavy so you have to let him lean in the bridge first, you know approach a "friendly" conversation before the train appears, so he'll lean when you lean, then lie about going to the bathroom or getting something and let him stay there. Then sneak on his back and with full force push him while his leaning easy as pie.
I wouldn't say that I'm a psychopath, let's just say it's like a puzzle/problem.
Every 8 to 9 grader I'm a psychopath
I wouldn't save anyone I would mind my business and walk away.
Yeah.. real simple test. Whoever made this test up is the real psychopath for thinking it was good
I'm 4 years late.... But if I were the driver, I would do my best to stop the train... And then seek a good therapist...
First things I thought about where:
Is it safe that the train will stop if I do it?
And has it no consequences for me, like conviction for murder?
A true psychopath really wouldn't care at all.
It's not only logical, but you would be doing it to save 5 people. This makes you neither a psychopath, nor normal. If you asked people why, than you would find your answers.
Not me choosing to not do anything for the second one because i don’t want to run the risk of going to jail
First one i won't flick the switch...😈
That's not quite right. I think most people will choose to push the big person over here, but not in a real-life scenario where it actually matters.
More to it than just this psychopath test than using trolly problem.