title: Reductio ad absurdum: a formal analysis of Rorschach autisms.
abstract: Generalizing from the rationales underlying the scoring of the three types of Rorschach autisms included in the TRAUT system, it was shown that all perceptual autisms can be subsumed under a single, all-encompassing principle based upon a reductio ad absurdum argument. Therefore, in a way, autisms can be viewed as "cheating," i.e., getting around the explicit and implicit rules governing the evaluation of Rorschach percepts.
authors.affiliation: Alabama Psychological Services Center.
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Wagner
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D011594:Psychometrics; D012392:Rorschach Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*