The Thematic Apperception Test Developed by psychologists Christiana Morgan and Henry Murray (1935), the TAT involves creating a story about a highly evocative, ambiguous scene, like the ones shown in the cards in the photographs above. The person is thought to project his own motives, conflicts, and other personality characteristics into the story he creates. According to Murray (1943), “Before he knows it, he has said things about an invented character that apply to himself, things which he would have been reluctant to confess in response to a direct question.”
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