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From the April 2005 Scientific American Mind | 4 comments

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Psychologists often use the famous Rorschach inkblot test and related tools to assess personality and mental illness. But research says the instruments are frequently ineffective for those purposes

By Scott O. Lilienfeld, James M. Wood and Howard N. Garb   

 
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