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PubMed1990

The Children's Apperception Test: possible applications for adults.

This paper illustrates the benefits that can be gained from administering the Child's Apperception Test (CAT) to adults. Five CAT and five Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) pictures were administered to 20 freshmen psychology students and 20 mental hospital patients. Five CAT-Human (CAT-H) and five TAT pictures were shown to 20 other freshmen psychology students, thus isolating the effect of the animal figures used in the CAT. The stories of all subjects were rated on various measures designed to test the level and type of projection. Results were compared and analyzed, both statistically and clinically, and demonstrated by clinical examples. Findings of this study prove the unique contribution of the CAT in reflecting basic infantile conflicts and experiences, and indicate that use of the CAT is beneficial for certain adult personality types.

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PubMed1975

On the association of sex and violence in the fantasy production of college students.

This paper investigates whether there is an association between sexual imagery and violent imagery in stories produced in response to ambiguous Thematic Apperception Test stimuli. In addition, two commonsense assumptions about sex and violence are examined: (a) do men have more sexual imagery than women? and (b) assuming men are more aggressive than women, do they produce fantasies with more violent themes? Thematic Apperception Test protocols administered to 80 college students as part of a study conducted at Syracuse University in the late 1950s were examined using two scoring systems--one for sexual imagery and one for violent imagery. An association between sex and violence was found for men only. The conventional wisdom that all men ever think about is sex was undermined by the finding that men and women do not differ in the production of sexual imagery. In terms of production of violent imagery, men and women also do not differ. The fact that females are less aggressive than men is overt behavior may be a function of social and cultural forces which operate differentially on men and women.

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