Developing a BRACE Character Profile of Renata Antoinette Monet, items 1-25
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STANDARD RATING INSTRUCTIONS:
Rate each item 0,1,2,3, 4, or X.
Attempt to rate each item, even if there is some doubt.
It is important to rate each item as accurately as possible.
If you clearly have no knowledge about an item, rate the item X.
When in doubt between two ratings, be conservative and select the lower rating.
0 = Rarely, Slightly, or Not Characteristic at All
1 = Somewhat, Sometimes, Mildly Characteristic
2 = Often or Frequently or Strongly Characteristic
3 = Very Often or Very Strongly Characteristic
4 = Consistently, Extremely, Core Characteristic
X = No knowledge.
PLEASE: Frequently refer to the rating scale.
Over or under rating items distorts the profile.
READ EACH ITEM CAREFULLY, CONSIDERING THE FULL CONTENT OF THE ITEM
NOTE: Pay very close attention to the wording (particularly: if, may, and, both, etc.).
General rating guidelines:
If an item is 100% true, it is a 4.
If there are some parts that are not true but overall the item is at least 75% true, it is a 3.
If half is 100% true but half is not true at all or only partially true, it is at least a 2.
If one or more parts is true, it is at least a 1.
If almost all of the item is false most of the time, it is a 0.
Note: Consensus input by two or more raters increases the knowledge base and allows for doubts to be “reasoned out” and alternative perspectives to be considered. However, one person who has good knowledge of the character being rated (or access to those who do) and who also has good critical thinking skills can successfully complete the input ratings.
Informed speculation is encouraged. Simple guessing is not.
1. Lies easily, but ineptly --- easy to catch in a lie. Uses simple denial to avoid consequences, generally one lie on top of another without considering the inconsistencies and contradictions; lies are unconvincing, poorly organized and poorly interrelated.
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2. When with like-minded peers, s/he engages in superficial, loud, and distracting silliness. Alone in public, s/he is self-consciously anxious. One-to-one s/he may display inappropriate or anxious laughter to mask underlying anxiety. With age, becomes increasingly more sullen, hostile, and isolated, with shallow and transparent emotional displays to motivate others.
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3. Displays a marked insensitivity to others while offering inconsistent, self-serving rationalizations to justify their own endless pursuit of pleasure, comfort, and excitation.
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4. Has an overly simplistic world view with limited foresight, insight, and hindsight. Looks at the surface of things, little depth. Deals with complexity by over generalizing, jumping to conclusions, making undue assumptions, guessing rather than analyzing, and stereotyping --- making them prone to bigotry and related “self-fulfilling prophecies”.
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5. Engages in low energy-high effect activities ... more passive than active. Activities and interests are generally nonproductive. Very little participation in activities and sports requiring high levels of physical energy, self-discipline, sustained concentration, or coordinated team activity. Is attracted to disturbances and conflict among others; will join destructive group activities.
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6. S/he is easily and willingly distracted from productive activities, often attending to irrelevant novelty and superficial aspects of the current situation. Has a narrow focus of attention, limited perceptual range, limited sustained concentration, and low level of perceptual complexity. Is entertained by simple, passive activities.
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7. Short-sighted, narrow focus on immediate gratification rather than delayed consequences. Has poorly developed anticipatory skills, does not anticipate problems and rarely plans ahead. Is unrealistic in stated goals and has no plans for accomplishing them. S/he expects to be provided for, excused, and rescued by family or society.
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8. Thoughts are logical and organized but founded on false assumptions which become “self-fulfilling prophesies”. Spends high levels of cognitive energy anticipating evil intent by others, searching for physical and psychological weaknesses in others, and calculating the need for defensive and offensive actions.
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9. Neglect is secondary to focusing on own self at the expense of others. Although feelings are valued over reason, others are allowed to suffer so that s/he prospers. In the pursuit of personal pleasure and status, will frivolously waste the money, time and energy of others. Will let others wait for little or no reason and easily breaks promises. S/he always puts own needs and desires ahead of others, no matter how trivial.
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10. Uses time as an expression and means of control. Is intentionally slow to respond to time requirements and behavioral deadlines. Intentionally makes others wait. Looks for patterns and routines in others in order to understand and predict their future behavior, thus gaining power and control over others.
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11. Highest value is to have power and control rather than being subject to power and control. Confuses respect with fear, intimacy with intensity, and adoration with servitude. All value judgments are after-the-fact rationalizations to project blame, present self as victim, and justify past and future actions --- understands boundaries and laws, but has little or no conscience. Values getting what s/he wants, complete independence, and ultimately, being obeyed, but not subject to obedience.
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12. Responds readily to external events but has a tendency to misinterpret the motives of others and overreact with defensive anger. May be skilled at reacting cognitively and physically, but has little interest or capacity to seriously empathize with others. Responds quickly to avoid being evaluated or taken advantage of --- or is evasive, or does not respond at all.
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13. Enjoys controlling others; enjoys “respect”; may stalk and prowl alone; enjoys martial arts; likes guns and destructive weapons of all types, including explosives and fire. Enjoys action movies with sex and violence, cop shows, “America’s Most Wanted”. Is not a team player. Desire for power and control is likely enhanced by stimulants such as cocaine, possibly combined with alcohol. May sell or give drugs to others as a means of control or in trade for sex.
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14. Is ultimately motivated by a self-centered desire to dominate and an equally strong fear of being dominated by others ... fear of being under the power and control of others. Both the desire to exercise and experience power by controlling others and the fear of being at the mercy of others are ultimately expressed through anger and violence. Controlling is winning and winning is everything.
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15. Is generally neat and clean, but rebellious in manner and dress. Uses fashion to project power and control and/or contempt and disrespect for convention. May sport reflective sunglasses, expensive looking jewelry and clothes, etc. to impress ... but has limited interest in fashion ... is concerned with image --- dresses to impress and provoke.
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16. Is cognitively and behaviorally preoccupied with pleasure seeking and “self-discovery”. “Deifies” the SELF based on the rationale that “if it feels good, it is good”. S/he justifies deviant or illegal behavior based on the contention that they have a “right” to be and do whatever they want --- it’s their life to live as they see fit. Cognitive and physical resources are foolishly spent on self-expression and the experience of pleasure. Their self-centered lifestyle is increasingly self-destructive and insensitive to others.
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17. Generally humorless, but is able to “joke” and present self in a friendly manner if necessary. Laughs most at the pain, suffering, and misfortunes of others. Laughs at violence, accidents, humiliating put downs, and the failures of others after heavy investment. When s/he plays a practical joke, someone usually gets hurt physically and/or emotionally --- “jokes” can be cruel, malicious, insensitive, and dangerous.
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18. Expects others to adapt to and cater to their wishes; only anticipates events related to current desires, paying little attention to the consequences of attainment. Expects to be rescued by partner, lover, therapist, or naive care provider.
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19. Will show displaced aggression (hitting wall) and angry displays with property destruction. Will resort to simple and direct forms of aggression against weaker individuals, including domestic violence, but easily backs down with a peer. Will threaten and use violence as a bully and is prone to “horse playing” violence, but does not have the discipline to become a skilled fighter.
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20. Leaves relationships and situations without remorse, including family, children; actively oppositional to authority, including intentionally leaving a mess or work not done; likely to be fired due to hostile attitude and temper displays or chronic pattern of noncompliance; will resort to sabotage. Cultivates insensitivity to others as a value but understands feelings on an intellectual level. Neglect is secondary to a genuine lack of care and a generalized absence of empathy or compassion. Does not do anything for others without considering “What’s in it for me?” or “What will it cost me if I don’t?”
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21. Is ultimately motivated by the expression of feelings and fulfillment of desires without personal or social restraint --- avoiding pain/discomfort and experiencing pleasure/comfort of all types --- real and imagined, physical and psychological, adaptive and maladaptive, legal and illegal, moral and immoral, etc.
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22. Is concerned with physical skills and may exercise with some discipline (e.g., martial arts, marksmanship, jogging, weight lifting). May conserve energy, but is capable of sustained efforts. Will expend cognitive energy to learn techniques of power and control. Will expend high levels of sustained energy to avoid losing.
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23. Cognitively and behaviorally “takes the easy way,” diminishing cognitive capacities and related behavioral skills. Has poorly developed critical thinking skills. Is “open-minded,” yet narrowly focused --- open to suggestion and subject to manipulation. S/he is ultimately naive and gullible, easily led, duped, disillusioned, disappointed, and exploited.
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24. Values are poorly defined, shallow, relative to feelings, and constantly restructured according to current interests and desires. Self-expression, self-discovery, and self-reinforcement through the pursuit of pleasure override all else.
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25. Prefers pleasures that require little or no effort and minimal imagination. Enjoys being high and hanging out with friends; sleeping late, day time naps; likely smokes cigarettes and cannabis; when drinking, drinks to excess. Enjoys soap operas, comedies, and westerns rather than mysteries, dramas, or documentaries; may watch pro wrestling, football, or basketball; may play simple card games, but not bridge; may prowl, cruise, and vandalize with one or more friends; may play pool, may read comics, romance novels, or simple sex and western paperbacks --- more likely just looks at the pictures.
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