Multiform assessments of personality development among gifted college men. 1965.

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Multiform assessments of personality development among gifted college men. 1965.

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Data for this study were collected using a multiform assessment method at the Harvard Psychological Clinic by a team of research investigators led by Henry Murray. The purpose of this research was to further understand the personality by combining the use of standardized tests and projective measures with intensive study of social interaction, responses to stress, and memory. Five groups of about 20 men each from the Harvard College classes of 1942, 1952, 1955, 1959, and 1962 were studied. The men participated in intensive testing beginning as sophomores and continuing through their senior years. Each participant committed about 200 hours to the project over the course of three years. The Murray Center now holds complete dossiers on all five groups of men who participated in this intensive, longitudinal research project. Life history data include lengthy, detailed autobiographies, statements of philosophical beliefs and values, college transcripts, and personal interviews. A variety of ratings including behavioral variables, psychological types, values, special abilities, and other personality tests and inventories are available for each participant. Rorschach tests, drawings, and responses to a number of Thematic Apperception Tests (TATs), cues are among the projective data in this study. Each subject also participated in dyadic interaction sessions, from which observations, recalls, reactions, and perceptions were recorded. These extensive interaction data are available as well. Analyses of each case by Henry Murray and his colleagues accompany raw data.

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