How Exactly Are Bald Men Perceived? A Bit More Of A Scientific Approach

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i'm pretty good at guessing what the required answers for psychology tests are so i am not sure my scoring is right; i can usually tell the intent behind the question. That type of question would show up to see if someone is able to deal with unpredictability/uncertainty which is important to see how willing someone is willing to step out of their comfort zone. Do i personally like roller coasters? Not really, and if up to me i wouldn't go on them; however, every time someone has dragged me to get on one and i did it was fairly enjoyable so i don't like the concept of it but the activity i don't mind.

It comes on tests of psychopathy/empathy.

Psychopaths tend to love roller coasters. They don't just have less empathy, they often have less emotion in general. So on roller coasters they tend to feel and that excites them.
 

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hmmm interesting, i'll have to use that information to my advantage. It does make sense, what's scary is i know a few people who are obsessed with rollercoasters but they present themselves as adrenaline junkies when maybe they are just psychos...

It's probably not enough for a diagnosis lol, but you're right that this is actually useful information. Most people wouldn't realize the intent of the question.
 

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It comes on tests of psychopathy/empathy.

Psychopaths tend to love roller coasters. They don't just have less empathy, they often have less emotion in general. So on roller coasters they tend to feel and that excites them.

I love roller coasters, cabin lifts, heights, dangerous situations. I often find myself hoping something will go wrong. Not that I'm suicidal, or hate life, I just want something to happen. I remember when I used to get lifts with my drunk mate back from the pub, I'd fantasise about him crashing, people dieing, and me being devastated but also somehow holding it together.

I'm obviously fucked in the head. I watch videos of people rushing down the stairs during 911 and all I can think is that I wish I was there.

Everytime I'm on a plane I hope that someone tries to hijack it. Note the "tries". I'm not suicidal, I just want something to happen.

Anyhow, these feelings are the reason I've started down biking (I snowboard but only about 7 days out of a year), I f*****g love it. The intense feeling I get when I nearly slip is my favourite part.
 

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Me it's not fear (or it's not just that) it's more like I feel powerless, and I just want it to stop. I feel like that in planes too. (I cry in planes, but more discretly lol)
Sorry but you're pretty much just describing fear :p
One time I went on the tallest rollercoaster (called King da Ka - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingda_Ka) at the insistence of friends and family and when i got to the front i realized i was too tall to ride it and i told everyone i wasn't going on it but every one called me a pussy so i ended up going anyways. I get in the car and i'm putting the safety harness on and it refuses to click because of my height... all of a sudden the siren for takeoff goes off and even though my harness is not on securely so i slouch down as much as possible and click the harness as we are shooting off at 120mph. My shoulders were fucked up for 3 months after because of that sh*t.
WTF. You could sue them! I would try if i were you, you could've f*****g died!

Ive heard of that roller coaster too

I love roller coasters, cabin lifts, heights, dangerous situations. I often find myself hoping something will go wrong. Not that I'm suicidal, or hate life, I just want something to happen. I remember when I used to get lifts with my drunk mate back from the pub, I'd fantasise about him crashing, people dieing, and me being devastated but also somehow holding it together.

I'm obviously fucked in the head. I watch videos of people rushing down the stairs during 911 and all I can think is that I wish I was there.

Everytime I'm on a plane I hope that someone tries to hijack it. Note the "tries". I'm not suicidal, I just want something to happen.

Anyhow, these feelings are the reason I've started down biking (I snowboard but only about 7 days out of a year), I f*****g love it. The intense feeling I get when I nearly slip is my favourite part.
. . . . . Edgelord :p
 

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I love roller coasters, cabin lifts, heights, dangerous situations. I often find myself hoping something will go wrong. Not that I'm suicidal, or hate life, I just want something to happen. I remember when I used to get lifts with my drunk mate back from the pub, I'd fantasise about him crashing, people dieing, and me being devastated but also somehow holding it together.

I'm obviously fucked in the head. I watch videos of people rushing down the stairs during 911 and all I can think is that I wish I was there.

Everytime I'm on a plane I hope that someone tries to hijack it. Note the "tries". I'm not suicidal, I just want something to happen.

Anyhow, these feelings are the reason I've started down biking (I snowboard but only about 7 days out of a year), I f*****g love it. The intense feeling I get when I nearly slip is my favourite part.
Have you been tandem skydiving? If the potential of something going wrong gets you off, strapping yourself to a stranger is always an option.

Statistically it’s not very dangerous (“...a 0.0007% chance of dying from a skydive, compared to a 0.0167% chance of dying in a car accident (based on driving 10,000 miles.”) but if you dislike trusting other people it’s a pretty nice rush. Actually the rush for me was just being forced to kneel in front of the open door staring at the ground. The fall itself didn’t do much for me.
 

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bunch of psycho here.
Exo and I are empathic!
By the way @exodus me crying in roller coasters you can call it fears, but I see it more as a control thing, like I want to be in control and hate it when I am not. Hence the planes. There is also a fear of heights factor. I am not really scared something would go wrong. I just don't like those situation, it makes me very nervous.
I already experienced a situation where I could die, and surprisingly, I just reacted very very fast and even saved my friend who was kind of paralized. The car stopped in the highway, but like right i the middle. It's said you have 10 min life expectency, and well crossing the highway is like very scary.
Whyd the car stop? What happened?

And idk what is it you hate about not being in control? Usually its fear of the unknown that causes that. U have to trust someone else to have things under control
 

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bunch of psycho here.
Exo and I are empathic!
By the way @exodus me crying in roller coasters you can call it fears, but I see it more as a control thing, like I want to be in control and hate it when I am not. Hence the planes. There is also a fear of heights factor. I am not really scared something would go wrong. I just don't like those situation, it makes me very nervous.
I already experienced a situation where I could die, and surprisingly, I just reacted very very fast and even saved my friend who was kind of paralized. The car stopped in the highway, but like right i the middle. It's said you have 10 min life expectency, and well crossing the highway is like very scary.

Just out of interest, how do you feel when in a car with someone else driving? This is a situation where you have no control and yet where you are much more likely to die than in a roller-coaster, plane etc.
 

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I used to love rollercoasters. But now it does nothing for me. I even skydived pretty recently and it didn’t affect me at all. After we landed the instructor was all hyped up and obviously wanted some reaction out of me, so I had to fake one. It’s like my emotions have flatlined and there’s nothing there.

I was driving home one day and I knew there was no cops because I had driven the same road 15 minutes earlier, so for some reason I decided to speed up. I was driving maybe 200km/h (stopped looking at speedometre), but I was still calm. I’m trying to put myself in situations where I’ll feel something, but it’s just always the same. What the f*** is wrong with me?
 

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I used to love rollercoasters. But now it does nothing for me. I even skydived pretty recently and it didn’t affect me at all. After we landed the instructor was all hyped up and obviously wanted some reaction out of me, so I had to fake one. It’s like my emotions have flatlined and there’s nothing there.

I was driving home one day and I knew there was no cops because I had driven the same road 15 minutes earlier, so for some reason I decided to speed up. I was driving maybe 200km/h (stopped looking at speedometre), but I was still calm. I’m trying to put myself in situations where I’ll feel something, but it’s just always the same. What the f*** is wrong with me?
alpha as f*** tbh. you should have girls with you in these situations, they'll get turned on lol

the cowardly pussy route is easiest for me and i dont have motivation to try to be "cool" so i'm even more of a b**ch now that i'm bald ironically
 

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I don't have a problem with other people driving a car as long as they're competent, which they usually are.

If somebody else needs to be the one driving then I assume that they have issues.
 

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I used to love rollercoasters. But now it does nothing for me. I even skydived pretty recently and it didn’t affect me at all. After we landed the instructor was all hyped up and obviously wanted some reaction out of me, so I had to fake one. It’s like my emotions have flatlined and there’s nothing there.

I was driving home one day and I knew there was no cops because I had driven the same road 15 minutes earlier, so for some reason I decided to speed up. I was driving maybe 200km/h (stopped looking at speedometre), but I was still calm. I’m trying to put myself in situations where I’ll feel something, but it’s just always the same. What the f*** is wrong with me?

 
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