Reversing Rorschach: ink-blot tests might be able to tell us more about creativity than personality

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Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, who died in 1922, used 10 ink blots to elicit strange perceptions that could be used clinically. He published only one major book, 'Psychodiagnostics: A Diagnostic Test Based on Perception,' but his approach sparked off a large industry in clinical psychology. It can be argued that reversing Rorschach's test may indicate what stimulates creativity. Finding out which patterns or pictures are most evocative should give an insight into what stimulates people most powerfully to create new perceptions and ideas.

Psychological aspects, Practice, Influence, Creative ability, Creativity, Clinical psychology, Psychiatrists, Rorschach, Hermann

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A blot on the land

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Although the world is confronting an ecological crisis, a majority of people have merely the faintest comprehension of their own species' role as a causal factor. It is not simply the 'environment' that needs tending, but humans as well, as the author asserts the crisis pertaining to the environment is the result of enormous "human ecological dysfunction".

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Environmental protection, Environmental issue, Environmental research

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The Perils of Anthropomorphism

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The behavioral complexity of the animals with the humans is analyzed. The ethologist Donald Graffin has performed various discoveries on this complexity, which are discussed.

Behavioral assessment, Animals, Man, Anthropomorphism, Behavioural assessment

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