1. Do you think like a criminal? Cognitive explanations for crime
Criminal Minds
Do you think like a criminal?
Cognitive explanations for crime

2. The Test This is a story about a girl.
While at the funeral of her own mother, she met a guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, so much the dream guy that she was searching for that she fell in love with him immediately.
However, she never asked for his name or number and afterward could not find anyone who knew who he was.
A few days later the girl killed her own sister.

3. Question: Why did she kill her sister?
The Question
Question: Why did she kill her sister?

4. The Answer
Answer: She reasoned that if the guy appeared at her mother's funeral, then he might appear at another family funeral.
If you answered like this, you think like a psychopath.

5. Hoax!
This scenario is reported to have been used by a famous America Psychologist to test if one has the same mentality as a killer. Allegedly many arrested serial killers took part in this test and answered correctly.
IT IS NOT TRUE!!!!

6. Discussion What is a more plausible reason for killing her sister?
Can you really discover psychopathological tendencies from just one question?
What other factors would we need to take into account?
Is it that simple (reductionist)?
Why is the idea that psychopaths are different so attractive to us?
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