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The Rorschach in the context of performance-based personality assessment

Robert E McGrath1

  • 1School of Psychology, Farleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck-Hackensack Campus, 1000 River Road T-WHI-01, Teaneck, NJ 07666, USA. mcgrath@fdu.edu

Journal of Personality Assessment
|August 16, 2008
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