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Friday, December 7, 2018

Time Paradox -- Please do this Quiz!

One thing that Daniel and I talked about in our hitchhiking and other Italian adventures was the different ways that people perceive time and how we thought sociopaths tended to experience time.

I learned that Philip Zimbardo (of Stanford Prison Experiment fame) had a book out in the last decade talking about the different ways that people can and do perceive time.

I wonder if y'all wouldn't mind completing this short test Zimbardo uses to suss out who perceives time in what ways: http://www.thetimeparadox.com/zimbardo-time-perspective-inventory/

And then if you could report what you got in the comments with a rough score on what you are 1-10 in terms of sociopathic traits (bell-curve style, like I was probably an 8 at my peak, now a 7.5 and 10 is basically not functional in modern society without a ton of special accommodations), I'm interested to see if Daniel's observations are correct. Maybe even tell me what type of sociopath you consider yourself, male/female, low or high functioning, successful or struggles, that sort of thing.

Thanks friends!

22 comments:

  1. Time Perspective

    Past-negative: 3.20
    Past-positive: 3.56
    Present-fatalistic: 2.78
    Present-hedonistic: 3.93
    Future: 2.92

    Not sure what my sociopath score is... but evidently I am pretty well rounded according to this :)

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    1. I also do not believe I am a full blown soc either maybe tendencies and high functioning.

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    2. 2.50
      2.00
      2.78
      4.00
      3.15

      7.
      Ish.
      Maybe 7.5 on a bad day.
      Or good day.
      Depends on the viewpoint I guess.
      High functioning.
      Ish.
      On a good day.

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    3. Past-negative: 2.00
      Past-positive: 2.56
      Present-fatalistic: 2.56
      Present-hedonistic: 3.47
      Future: 3.46

      Not a socio. More schizoid. But maybe we should post our Levenson self report scores.

      Primary: 2.6
      Secondary: 2.4

      But I don't relate to the frame of reference in that test

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    4. Decided to take the levenson test out of curiosity and i got a 3.5 for primary and 3.9 for secondary

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  2. Past-Negative: 2.1
    Past-Positive: 3.67
    Present Fatalism: 1.67
    Present Hedonism: 4.33
    Future: 3.69

    My score is about 7.5-8.7 at most. I am a female. I consider myself to be pretty high-functioning (I've consulted a psychologist about my sociopathy and it was nice overall). I can't exactly predict whether or not I will be a successful professional yet, since I am just starting with college.

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  3. Past-negative: 2.00
    Past-positive: 2.11
    Present-fatalistic: 2.89
    Present-hedonistic: 3.73
    Future: 3.08


    I'd say I'm a 6ish, I'm pretty functional, no empathy but I'm not that impulsive either. Kinda in the middle.

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  4. socios appear to think that the past is just a misty dream & that today is the only reality? Bad psychos in prison seem to think that its rather pointless to dwell on past crimes, and just seem to think that do-gooders that keep reminding them about those events are more boring than grey paint?

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  5. Thanks for this key which is going to help me to understand my struggles

    My results :
    Passé négatif: 3,40
    Passé positif: 2,11
    Présent fataliste: 2,67
    Présent hédoniste: 4,47
    Avenir: 3,15

    Not supposed to be a sociopath but a woman with borderline personality disorder, high functioning and emotional hypersensitivity

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  6. Past-negative: 3.20
    Past-positive: 2.56
    Present-fatalistic: 3.33
    Present-hedonistic: 4.20
    Future: 2.00

    Maybe a 4-6? Unlikely much higher.

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  7. Time Perspective

    Past-negative: 1.90
    Past-positive: 2.67
    Present-fatalistic: 1.78
    Present-hedonistic: 3.60
    Future: 3.77

    Definitely not a sociopath. But I was bitten by one about 8 years ago. People do change. I am one of them.

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    1. Just did the levenson test.
      Primary: 2.6
      Secondary: 2.1
      I am quite sure it would have been different 10 years ago. I am female and consider myself successful in my personal life as well as my professional life.

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  9. Past-negative: 2.00
    Past-positive: 1.78
    Present-fatalistic: 1.89
    Present-hedonistic: 4.00
    Future: 1.62

    As for sociopathic traits... 7-ish?

    My levenson self-report score: primary 3.3 and secondary 3.9

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  10. Past-negative: 3.80
    Past-positive: 2.67
    Present-fatalistic: 2.00
    Present-hedonistic: 4.53
    Future: 2.85

    sociopathic traits: 7-7.5???


    go to here see what the score mean: https://psychcentral.com/lib/whats-your-time-perspective/

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  11. Past-negative: 1.80
    Past-positive: 1.22
    Present-fatalistic: 2.89
    Present-hedonistic: 2.13
    Future: 3.54

    The past can eat a dick. It happens, process, integrate, move on. The present is fine, because you've structured everything about it to generate and accumulate the only thing that matters for the future: optionality.

    Self-rate? 6.5? 7? "Bell-curve" was the request but that implies that a perfectly normal person is a 5, and I'm thinking that wasn't the intention. Regardless, very high functioning, successful, but getting more soc as I get older so we'll see how that works out.

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  12. Past-negative: 2.90
    Past-positive: 2.78
    Present-fatalistic: 3.11
    Present-hedonistic: 3.60
    Future: 2.31

    Sociopathic traits around 7 (not even sure how I'm supposed to measure that accurately)
    I'd say low functioning at this point in time though I have been very high functioning in the pas. I am exhausted by the mask and don't bother wearing it as much as I should, but that's fine since I have basically isolated myself from human contact. Who knows, maybe I'll recharge and become more functioning again in the future.

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  13. "-Don´t give me the travel & friends crap" said a dragon in a fairytale. And continued: "-A rather sure sign sombeody is a psycho is when the person (so to speak) weighs everybody in a room and comes to the conclusion that he´s the smartest person there. It´s somehow so important. I´m not a cuddle-dragon and don´t like to be have my scales polished."

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  15. Past-negative: 2.00
    Past-positive: 2.11
    Present-fatalistic: 2.89
    Present-hedonistic: 4.07
    Future: 2.62

    Sociopathic score 8.5
    19, female, very high functioning

    I heard that each time you look back on a memory it becomes less accurate. So there's literally no point recalling a memory for the sake of pleasure, because chances are you are 95% lying to yourself, trying to make it better than it actually was in that moment. You can never move forward if you are thinking of the past, good or bad - because nothing exists outside the present moment, in which everything that you know, all your resources at that point, is supremacy. Like now.

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  16. Past-negative: 3.70
    Past-positive: 2.22
    Present-fatalistic: 2.78
    Present-hedonistic: 3.00
    Future: 3.31

    Female, 7 at this point of my life. High functioning.

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  17. Past-negative: 3.40
    Past-positive: 2.11
    Present-fatalistic: 2.22
    Present-hedonistic: 3.20
    Future: 3.46

    Male, 40, not sure about my sociopathic score and may see about taking similar tests to get an idea.
    Having said all that, I have no idea what the above scores indicate (!)

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