The contents for the majority of MMPI questions are relatively obvious and deal largely with psychiatric, psychological, neurological, or physical symptoms. However, some of the questions are psychologically obscure because the underlying psychological process they are assessing is not intuitively obvious. For example, item 68, "1 some- times tease animals" is empirically answered "False" more frequently by depressed subjects than normals. Thus, it was included under Scale 2 (Depression) even though it does not, on the surface, appear to directly assess an individual's degree of depression.