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Journal of Personality Assessment

|January 1, 1989

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Identifying projection in Rorschach responses is challenging. While some projected answers may exist, most projections likely manifest as embellishments of the stimulus, making interpretation difficult.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Psychometrics

Background:

The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test.
Understanding projection is key to interpreting Rorschach responses.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore assumptions about projection in the Rorschach response process.
To investigate how projection manifests in Rorschach answers.

Main Methods:

Analysis of Rorschach responses, including movement and content.
Application of a new special score for positive cooperative interaction (COP).

Main Results:

Some Rorschach answers may arise from projection, but are hard to identify.
Projections often appear as departures from or embellishments of the stimulus.

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New COP score applied to movement responses.

Conclusions:

Interpreting single Rorschach answers as projections requires caution.
Many apparent projections may result from simple stimulus classification.