In season 1, episode 4 of the hit Netflix show called Wednesday (2022), teenager Wednesday Addams is discussing plans for going to a school dance with a certain someone. In typical Wednesday fashion, she redirected the conversation from her feelings to her priorities. This was highlighted when Wednesday said that it's not her fault for being unable to interpret "emotional morse code." Her lack of interest in discussing feelings and emotions and word choices reflect the Emotion attribute.

In the hit sequel to the Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003) features the creator of it all. The Architect meets Neo and explains his machine-like understanding of what happens next in not-so-simple language.

In the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), future successful financer Jordan Belfort is starting out on his first day of work as a broker on Wall Street. His boss takes him out to lunch and proceeds to take several drugs and order lots of alcoholic beverages in the work day. When Jordan questions his boss about this, he soon discovers that the culture of Wall Street includes such behavior, and many others. This alters Jordan's perspective on how things really work on Wall Street. Jordan's initial inability to adapt his speech and behavior with respect to Formality, Emotion, and other attributes highlight a well-below average score of Apperception.

In the hit movie There Will Be Blood (2007), Daniel Plainview (played by Daniel Day Lewis) is a silver-miner turned oil tycoon during the California oil rush in the late 1800s. Plainview gained his fortune by purchasing land that had oil, and by using cunning tactics against those in competition with him. When he encounters Eli Sunday, a man devoted to his faith, Plainview tricks him and his family for land that contains oil. Years later, Eli is a radio preacher and visits a wealthy but intoxicated Plainview at his bowling alley. Eli sought to propose a partnership for land, but Plainview demands that Eli renounce his faith. As Eli becomes more upset, Plainview discloses that he took all the oil and berates Eli for his life outcomes. The drainage of oil from land served as the figure of speech for Plainview's iconic phrase: "I drink your milkshake." As Eli cries, Plainview attacks him mercilessly. The clips' dialogue contains many words and phrases related to negative affect, particularly humiliation and taunting. This, and Plainview's excitement over Eli's sad state demonstrates a well above-average example of the Emotion attribute.