[Throughout transition]
3. What is A trying to do?
a. Teach the other guests a lesson
b. Tell the guests about the trouble he’s been having at work
c. Try and make the guests believe an outlandish story
d. Attract B
19. What is the relationship between A and B?
a. They are good friends who haven’t seen each other in a long time
b. They were enemies as children and haven’t seen each other since
c. They don’t know each other: B is an official with bad news
d. They don’t know each other: B is a salesman
I wrote these questions a long time ago for a psychology test, whose subjects watched movie clips with the sound removed before answering. The purpose was to determine if they had high emotional intelligence.
I am supposed to be wiser now than when I wrote the test, but the answers to these questions in my own life have become less clear.
e. Both?
f. Neither?
Neither myself nor the person I am in dialogue with is the authority on what I’m feeling. I experience the truth of what’s going on inside, if it exists, as lying somewhere between us, both parties creating and revising. It’s just that the version that gets published of this unstable & fragile story is written by the more confident person, someone who is not too concerned with cultivating sources or calling up experts.”
a. Teach the other guests a lesson
b. Tell the guests about the trouble he’s been having at work
c. Try and make the guests believe an outlandish story
d. Attract B
19. What is the relationship between A and B?
a. They are good friends who haven’t seen each other in a long time
b. They were enemies as children and haven’t seen each other since
c. They don’t know each other: B is an official with bad news
d. They don’t know each other: B is a salesman
I wrote these questions a long time ago for a psychology test, whose subjects watched movie clips with the sound removed before answering. The purpose was to determine if they had high emotional intelligence.
I am supposed to be wiser now than when I wrote the test, but the answers to these questions in my own life have become less clear.
e. Both?
f. Neither?
Neither myself nor the person I am in dialogue with is the authority on what I’m feeling. I experience the truth of what’s going on inside, if it exists, as lying somewhere between us, both parties creating and revising. It’s just that the version that gets published of this unstable & fragile story is written by the more confident person, someone who is not too concerned with cultivating sources or calling up experts.”