Definition
The thematic apperception test (TAT) is a performance-based projective test and implicit measure of personality.
Introduction
The thematic apperception test (TAT) is an implicit measure of personality that was developed and published by an American psychologist Henry A. Murray in collaboration with psychoanalyst Christiana D. Morgan at Harvard University in the late 1930s. The TAT was designed to measure implicit motives that are believed to be unconscious to the individual. Over time, the TAT has been heavily criticized for its psychometric properties, lack of standardization and scoring practices, and controversial interpretation (Weiner and Greene 2008). Despite its provocative nature as a projective assessment, the TAT remains one of the most researched projective tests in personality assessment.
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The thematic apperception test (TAT; Murray 1943) is an implicit measure...
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Kasky-Hernández, L. (2020). Thematic Apperception Test. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_955
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