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THE RELATION OF PERCEPTION TO PERSONALITY FACTORS
Author(s) -
VER M. D.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1961.tb00783.x
Subject(s) - psychology , objectivity (philosophy) , perception , social psychology , personality , big five personality traits , object (grammar) , cognitive psychology , identification (biology) , developmental psychology , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , botany , neuroscience , biology
Pictures from Phillipson's Object Relations Technique were presented to thirty subjects in a succession of tachistoscopic exposures, and subsequently for writing T.A.T. themes. It was found that these pictures, which are somewhat vague and shadowy in appearance, were perceived mainly in terms of ( a ) light, shade and unidentified shapes, and ( b ) objects and ‘figures’ or ‘people’. Inferences as to the nature and activities of the latter were comparatively few, and objectivity was high. There was some evidence that the selection of what was perceived, and such inferences as were made about it, were sometimes affected by the education, interests and personal emotions of the subjects such as appeared more clearly in the themes. There was no evidence of the gradual modification, in successive tachistoscopic perceptions, in emotional identification paralleling emotional experiences in early life which had previously been reported by Kragh.