title: How do I score thee? Let me count the ways. Or some different methods of categorizing Rorschach responses.
abstract: The controversy over the merit of Exner's (1986) Comprehensive System (CS) has unfortunately led to a confusion of the CS with all methods of scoring responses to inkblots. Six other widely used Rorschach scoring methods and representative examples of the research they have generated are described. Objective tests of personality ask participants to acknowledge explicit motives, whereas projective tests sample implicit needs participants may not recognize. Projective methods provide unique means of studying personality dynamics. The CS, whatever its merits and limitations, is but 1 of a number of systems of categorizing Rorschach responses.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14260-4110, USA. masling@acsu.buffalo.edu
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Masling
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D012392:Rorschach Test