Object Details
- Description
- After their widespread use during World War One, experts increasingly used psychological tests as a tool to rank and sort people in contexts including (but not limited to) education and employment. This is the Individual Record Blank of the Rorschach Method of Personality Diagnosis. It was developed for the Rorschach Institute, Inc., by Bruno Klopfer and Helen H. Davidson. Bruno Klopfer was a psychologist who came to Brooklyn after fleeing Nazi Germany. In 1934, he introduced—and helped to popularize—the Rorschach test, which had received scant attention prior.
- The booklet is six front-and-back pages. On the cover page, it provides the examiner with instructions and refers them to the text “The Rorschach Technique” by Klopfer and Douglas Kelley, published by the World Book Company. The record blank was also published by World Book Company and was copyrighted in 1942. The record blank includes a scoring list, tabulation sheet, information on “relationships among factors,” a location chart (including ink blots), and an explanation of scoring symbols.
- Reference:
- Rebecca Lemov, “X-Rays of Inner Words: The Mid-Twentieth Century American Projective Test Movement,” The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 47, no 3 (Summer 2011): 258.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ruth E. Myer
- 1942
- ID Number
- 1983.0168.17
- catalog number
- 1983.0168.17
- accession number
- 1983.0168
- Object Name
- Psychological Test Score Sheet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 21.6 cm x 28 cm; 8 1/2 in x 11 1/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Psychological Tests
- Record ID
- nmah_1213700
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-d78a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
