This excellent book is divided into two sections; the first eight chapters are concerned with the TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) and the remaining three chapters and appendix are devoted to the CAT (Children's Apperception Test). It is a highly specialised volume, meeting the need for a current and comprehensive review of these two tests. Because of this, it is unlikely to be of much practica...

This study compared the responses of dissociative inpatients and general inpatient psychiatric controls on the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT; Murray, 1943). We found the stories of dissociative participants to be characterized by a greater interpersonal distance and more trauma and dissociation responses than those of the controls. No significant differences were found regarding total number ...

Male passersby were contacted either on a fear-arousing suspension bridge or a non-fear-arousing bridge by an attractive female interviewer who asked them to fill out questionnaires containing Thematic Apperception Test pictures. Sexual content of stories written by subjects on the fear-arousing bridge and tendency of these subjects to attempt postexperimental contact with the interviewer were ...

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.06.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, United States. E-mail address: [email protected] (D.G. Serfass). 1 For our purposes here, we shall dispense with late comedian George observation that the gla...

Mental health clinical services research has emphasized the urgency of developing new psychometric instruments for non-biased psychological assessment of minority and non-minority children of diverse cultural groups in the United States. Background multicultural standardization and validation information is presented for Tell-Me-A-Story (TEMAS)--... new thematic apperception test to as-lss pers...

180 male students of 10+1&10+2 were tested on Rotter’s scale of locus of control and TAT ((3BM, 6BM, 7BM, 8BM, 10 & 20) in experimentally induced situations of probability of success of Ps.50 by specific instructions. An Insoluble figure--‘perceptual reasoning task’ was used to test persistence of externally & internally controlled Ss who were high and low on need-achievement. Analysis of varia...

Methodology All cases transferred in a level 3 Care ICU from ER over a period of one year were included and TAT documented. Patients were divided into Control group (Group A with TAT≤1 hour) and other groups (Group B with TAT>1 hour≤3 hours, Group C with TAT >3 hours≤6 hours, Group D with TAT>6 hours). Outcome assessment was done using APACHE IV model on admission to ICU. Predicted Mortality Ra...

This report summarizes research on the development of objectively scored language and emotionality scales for a five-card, orally administered and tape- reqorded version of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) used in the Health Examination Survey (HES) of children conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics in 1963-65. National norms for children ages 6-11 are presented for these sc...