Changes in the galvanic skin response accompanying the Rorschach Test.

Levy, Jeanne R.

doi:10.1037/h0062169

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“…Investigators such as Reusch and Finesinger (1941) and Holzberg and Schleifer (1955) have compared performance on the Rorschach test with performance on other kinds of tasks that also involved color. Still other investigators have measured different physiological functions of subjects while they were taking the Rorschach (Frost & Rodnick, 1948;Goodman, 1950;Levy, 1950). Another approach has been to extrapolate the color stimulus from the context of the Rorschach test to study response to color itself (Drechsler, 1960;Siipola, 1950).…”

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A study of response to achromatic and chromatic stimuli.

Colon¹

1965

Journal of Consulting Psychology

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A study of response to achromatic and chromatic stimuli.

Colon¹

1965

Journal of Consulting Psychology

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“…Psychophysiologic investigations of the Rorschach began to appear in the late 1940s, when researchers sought to validate hypothesized associations between color and emotionality, and between shading and anxiety. Studies exploring the affective value of objective stimulus features (i.e., card chromaticity and heavy shading) produced negative findings in every case [Goodman, 1950;Levy, 1948;Rockwell, et al, 1947], while studies exploring the affective value of perceptual response features (i.e., the subject's attentional focus on chromatic color or shading) produced mixed results. While several studies failed to find elevated autonomic arousal in color-dominant (CD) responses [Forrest and Diamond, 1967;Goodman, 1950;Hughes et al, 1951], others did yield corroborative evidence for the CD hypothesis [Broekmann, 1970;Lacey et al, 1953].…”

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Psychophysiologic responses to the Rorschach in PTSD patients, noncombat and combat controls

1998

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While psychophysiologic studies of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have investigated the effects of trauma‐related stimuli on arousal, none have explored the development of intrusive imagery and affect states in the absence of such specific cues. The present study compares autonomic arousal during PTSD‐related Rorschach responses in PTSD veterans vs. combat controls and noncombat controls. It was found that Rorschach responses containing traumatic content were found only in the PTSD group, and that these responses showed elevations in skin conductance (SC) and heart rate (HR). Our data also suggest that PTSD patients are more easily hyperaroused, especially under conditions of experienced stress and helplessness. Finally, combat control subjects exhibited lower baseline SC and HR than their counterparts, as well as decelerated HR during trauma‐ and stress‐related Rorschach responses, suggesting a physiologic resilience in this group. Depression and Anxiety 8:112–120, 1998. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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“…Holtzman (50) found that for 46 normal to superior college students, the commonly claimed relationship between Rorschach test data and the personality traits of shyness and gregariousness, as rated by associates, was not supported. Levy (60) measured palmar skin resistance and administered the Rorschach to 50 male college students. She found that there were no statistical differences in galvanic response among the cards used and inferred there was no affective difference.…”

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