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1928 J. J. B. Morgan Psychol. Abnormal People iv. 145 The Rorschach test is a special development of the ink-blot test. The ordinary ink-blot test has not yielded very significant results heretofore. Rorschach, some years ago, developed a series of ink~blots which have been more successful than those used previously.

1931 Psychol. Abstr. V. 268 An explanation of the use of the Rorschach ink-blot test as a measure of intelligence.

1940 R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (ed. 12) v. 151 A class of tests sometimes called the ‘fantasy tests’... Most used is the inkblot... A variety of things can be seen in such a blot.

1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 13 The interpretation given ink-blots by criminals reveals their unconscious motivations.

1965 Sun 20 May 2/2 American military planners are weighing up an ‘inkblot’ strategy to clear South Vietnam of Communist guerillas.

1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage i. 28 Ink Blots and Dribbled Paint. These methods are not as haphazard as they would at first seem as the hand is guided to a great extent by one's intuitive sense of design.

1968 D. Rapaport et al. Diagn. Psychol. Testing (rev. ed.) ix. 272 From the perceptual point of view it appears that the Rorschach inkblots are ‘unstructured’ perceptual raw material.

1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 88 303 Human movement responses..may be interpreted as an index of social approach during the administration of an inkblot test.