While it may seem like someone’s idea of a completely bonkers psychological experiment intended to drive you insane, the Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic is an odd ride into the unconscious that is an exploration of your brain’s affective response system.

Nonverbal emotional reactions to shape tableaus target the portion of your brain that is intuitive and prelingual.

Don’t think, just feel the response and answer the twenty questions in order.

Take the test at http://www.hypnoid.com/psytest2.html and see how you feel afterward.

Io9 contributor Phil Freeman points out that after taking this completely disturbing psychological test he’s worried that he’s been recruited to become some kind of sleeper assassin (here).

You’ll be directed to answer twenty increasingly scary questions by picking between two weird, throbbing shapes. By the end, you’re having a bad trip. And then you’re given a breezy, horoscope-like personality assessment that seems to have nothing to do with your harrowing journey. Have a nice day!

While I admit I had some issue with a couple of the questions, the results of my own test were actually pretty spot on . . . so either that’s just random luck or there is something to the test or perhaps the Forer Effect is alive and well.

All the best,
Brian
http://www.briandavidphillips.com