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What´s Wrong With The Rorschach: Science Confronts the Controversial Inkblot Test
James M. Wood
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Paperback. Four academic psychologists question the validity and usefulness of the famous ink bolt test and the system of scoring, thereby challenging the utility of what is now a huge business of testing and judging people by their alleged reaction to ink blots in child custody disputes, educational placement, and employment opportunities. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
Since its creation more than eighty years ago, the famous Rorschach inkblot test has become an icon of clinical psychology and popular culture. Administered over one million times world-wide each year, the Rorschach is used to assess personality and mental illness across a wide range of circumstances: child custody disputes, educational placement decisions, employment and termination proceedings, parole determinations, and even investigations of child abuse allegations. The test's enormous power shapes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people -- often without their knowledge. In the 1970s, this notoriously subjective test was supposedly systematized and improved. But is the Rorschach ... Read more
Since its creation more than eighty years ago, the famous Rorschach inkblot test has become an icon of clinical psychology and popular culture. Administered over one million times world-wide each year, the Rorschach is used to assess personality and mental illness across a wide range of circumstances: child custody disputes, educational placement decisions, employment and termination proceedings, parole determinations, and even investigations of child abuse allegations. The test's enormous power shapes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people -- often without their knowledge. In the 1970s, this notoriously subjective test was supposedly systematized and improved. But is the Rorschach ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
462
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118087121
SKU
V9781118087121
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About James M. Wood
James M. Wood is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso. M. Teresa Nezworski is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Dallas. Scott O. Lilienfeld is an associate professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta. Howard N. Garb is clinical ... Read more
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