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Inkblot personality test : understanding the unconscious mind
First authoritative and comprehensive study in the field of Inkblot Personality Test, this book describes the historical roots of the three major projective inkblot measures: the Rorschach, the Holtzman Inkblot Technique (HIT) and the Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS). It presents the extensive psychometric background work accompanying the normative data and diagnostic indicators along with indices for selecting executives in a business organization. The book begins with a detailed history of Hermann Rorschach and his early experiments with inkblots in the diagnosis of mentally ill patients. Special attention is given to the administration and scoring of the Rorschach, with the sections detailing the systems developed by Klopfer and Exner. The HIT and SIS are also reviewed in detail, emphasizing their psychometric qualities.
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Psychoanalysis and projective methods in personality assessment : the French school
\"Unique synthesis from the French School of psychoanalytical projective methods. This unique book synthesizes the work of leading thinkers of the French School of psychoanalytical projective methods in personality assessment. The French School is a direct successor to Rorschach's and Murray's original approaches using the Rorschach Test and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). Underlying this method is the idea of the coexistence of conscious and unconscious processes, of opposite instinctual pairs, and of agents that are ruled by conflicts (Freud). Transitional activity is seen as part of an intermediate space, a mediator space, and bearer of messages between the subject and the clinician (Winnicott). This book brings to life the important contributions of the French School, firstly exploring its theories and methods and then its clinical applications. Detailed case studies from different stages of life examine the psychopathology of everyday life with its severe and disabling states of suffering. Contemporary advances in research and clinical work are presented, and the groundbreaking early work of Nina Rausch de Traubenberg, Vica Shentoub, and Rosine Debray are also critically reread and discussed. Clinical tools adapted for clinicians and researchers in the appendices include a useful schema to facilitate the interpretation of the Rorschach and TAT together, a list of latent solicitations for the TAT, and the current version of the TAT Scoring Grid. This book is essential reading for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, researchers, and students interested in applying psychoanalytical theory to projective methods.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Effects of the 1999 Turkish Earthquake on Young Children: Analyzing Traumatized Children's Completion of Short Stories
The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine whether projective techniques could identify longterm consequences among children stemming from exposure to a traumatic event. The first group of children (n = 53; 26 female, 27 male) experienced 2 major earthquakes at age 7, 3 months apart, in Turkey, while a similarly matched control group (n = 50; 25 female, 25 male) did not. Both groups of children (current age: 9) completed a series of short stories related to disastrous events. Results indicated that the traumatized group evinced a range of trauma-related symptoms 2 years after experiencing the earthquakes.
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A Cross Sectional Study of ChatGPT in Translation: Magnitude of Use, Attitudes, and Uncertainties
This preliminary cross-sectional study, focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI), aimed to assess the impact of ChatGPT on translation within an Arab context. It primarily explored the attitudes of a sample of translation teachers and students through semi-structured interviews and projective techniques. Data collection included gathering information about the advantages and challenges that ChatGPT, in comparison to Google Translate, had introduced to the field of translation and translation teaching. The results indicated that nearly all the participants were satisfied with ChatGPT. The results also revealed that most students preferred ChatGPT over Google Translate, while most teachers favored Google Translate. The study also found that the participants recognized both positive and negative aspects of using ChatGPT in translation. Findings also indicated that ChatGPT, as a recent AI-based translation-related technology, is more valuable for mechanical processes of writing and editing translated texts than for tasks requiring judgment, such as fine-tuning and double-checking. While it offers various advantages, AI also presents new challenges that educators and stakeholders need to address accordingly.
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Differences in facial expressions during positive anticipation and frustration in dogs awaiting a reward
Facial expressions are considered sensitive indicators of emotional states in humans and many animals. Identifying facial indicators of emotion is a major challenge and little systematic research has been done in non-primate species. In dogs, such research is important not only to address fundamental and applied scientific questions but also for practical reasons, since many problem behaviours are assumed to have an emotional basis, e.g. aggression based on frustration. Frustration responses can occur in superficially similar contexts as the emotional state of positive anticipation. For instance, the anticipated delivery of a food reward may induce the state of positive anticipation, but over time, if the food is not delivered, this will be replaced by frustration. We examined dogs’ facial expressions in contexts presumed to induce both positive anticipation and frustration, respectively, within a single controlled experimental setting. Using DogFACS, an anatomically-based method for coding facial expressions of dogs, we found that the “Ears adductor” action was more common in the positive condition and “Blink”, “Lips part”, “Jaw drop”, “Nose lick”, and “Ears flattener” were more common in the negative condition. This study demonstrates how differences in facial expression in emotionally ambiguous contexts may be used to help infer emotional states of different valence.
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Ten Frequently Asked Questions About Implicit Measures and Their Frequently Supposed, But Not Entirely Correct Answers
Self-report measures are often criticised for their susceptibility to self-presentation and their inability to capture mental contents that are inaccessible to introspection. Over the past decade, researchers have attempted to overcome these problems by means of
implicit measures
, which infer mental contents from participants' performance on experimental paradigms. In the present article I provide an overview of the currently available implicit measures and discuss 10 common assumptions about these measures. I argue that many of these assumptions are either inconsistent with the available evidence or theoretically problematic for conceptual reasons. Nevertheless, implicit measures have proven their usefulness in predicting behaviours that are difficult to predict with traditional self-report measures. Thus, even though implicit measures may not be able to provide the information that is sometimes attributed to these measures, they represent a valuable addition to the toolbox of psychological instruments in understanding the determinants of human behaviour.
Les mesures autorapportées sont souvent critiquées pour leur susceptibilité à la désirabilité sociale et leur incapacité à capturer les contenus mentaux inaccessibles à l'introspection. Au cours de la dernière décennie, les chercheurs ont tenté de remédier à ces problèmes avec des
mesures implicites
, qui permettent d'inférer les contenus mentaux à partir de la performance des participants en contexte expérimental. Dans le présent article, je propose un survol des mesures implicites actuellement disponibles et je discute de 10 postulats communs à propos de ces mesures. J'avance que plusieurs de ces postulats sont soit inconsistants avec les données disponibles, soit problématiques sur le plan théorique pour des raisons conceptuelles. Néanmoins, les mesures implicites ont prouvé leur utilité pour prédire les comportements difficiles à prédire avec les mesures autorapportées traditionnelles. Ainsi, même si les mesures autorapportées ne permettent pas d'obtenir certaines informations qui leurs sont parfois attribuées, elles constituent un ajout valable à l'éventail des instruments de mesure psychologiques visant à comprendre les déterminants du comportement humain.
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Commutative algebra and its connections to geometry : Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute, August 3-14, 2009, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Olinda, Brazil
This volume contains papers based on presentations given at the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) on commutative algebra and its connections to geometry, which was held August 3-14, 2009, at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Olinda, Brazil. The main goal of the program was to detail recent developments in commutative algebra and interactions with such areas as algebraic geometry, combinatorics and computer algebra. The articles in this volume concentrate on topics central to modern commutative algebra: the homological conjectures, problems in positive and mixed characteristic, tight closure and its interaction with birational geometry, integral dependence and blowup algebras, equisingularity theory, Hilbert functions and multiplicities, combinatorial commutative algebra, Grobner bases and computational algebra.
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Exploring Private Label Perception through Projective Techniques: Insights for Retail Brand Strategy and Business Performance
Purpose: This study uses projective techniques to explore how consumers perceive private labels and provides retailers with actionable findings for developing successful private label strategies.
Design/Methodology: The research employed a qualitative design using two projective techniques, word association and a combined sentence completion and role-playing task, on a sample of 98 graduate students from the University of Zagreb.
Findings: Projective techniques help uncover how consumers evaluate private labels by using a rational risk–reward analysis based on price and quality. Spontaneous associations confirm that price and affordability remain the primary mental triggers, but the decision to purchase is a value-driven substitution, frequently rationalized as receiving “equal quality at a lower price”. The study establishes a strong link between private labels and the retailer’s identity.
Practical Implications: From a managerial perspective, the results indicate that retailers must move beyond simple low-price positioning and focus on communicating superior value and tangible savings. Managers should address quality polarization by actively improving product quality, cooperating with local suppliers, and using explicit quality-assurance claims to mitigate perceived risk. At the same time, they should recognize that confidence in private labels is fundamentally tied to the retailer’s image.
Originality/Value: What is new in this study is the use of projective techniques in this context, which leads to several specific implications for retailers.
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