In the hit movie Arrival, Dr. Louise Banks, played by Amy Adams, explains to her military counterpart why she must teach the alphabet to aliens that recently arrived on Earth for an unknown purpose.

In James Gunn's 2025 movie Superman, Mister Terrific joins Lois Lane on a mission to rescue Superman. During their conversation about Lois' relationship with Clark Kent, Mister Terrific interrupts, stating, "I'm not into peoples' emotions," accompanied by intense, penetrating eye contact. This lack of interest and emotional expression reflects the Emotion attribute.

In season 1, episode 2 of The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022), Belly is picking up some snacks at the gas station when the cashier starts flirting with her. Unfortunately for Belly, she does not realize this is the case until much later in the interaction. By the time she gets in the car, Belly starts adjusting her hair and evaluating her physical appearance.

In the hit movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), outlaw teenager Sean Boswell finds himself in Japan after getting kicked out of America by the law and his own mother. After befriending a car enthusiast at school, he's in an underground car enthusiast meetup focused on a style of racing called drifting. As he's walking around, Sean spots a girl from his class and begins flirting with her while discussing technical aspects of car engines. Soon, though, the girl's boyfriend notices and walks over to join the conversation. Sean doesn't realize that the man is part of the crime family known as the Yakuza, and continues taunting him. Despite warnings from two people, Sean decides to race DK ("Drift King") after being allowed to borrow another character's car. Sean bombs the race, wrecks the car, and eats his words because of his inexperience with the drift style of racing. Sean's inability to self-monitor his aggression and impulses in a dangerous, novel setting demonstrates a total lack of the Apperception attribute.