Good Times with Psych Tests

[plumtreeblossom]

I'm having mondo fun with my homemade TAT Test. Thanks to the brave souls who have posted pix so far. I don't know if I can gleen anything about my personality from my answers, but it is lots of fun, as I suspected.

The original post is here w/ pix and answers

More pix! And you can now post comments if you want.

Comments

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

hmmm, don't know that i can say anything specific, but you are definitely very different from me. :)

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

I am struck by how many of your responses deal explicitly or implicitly with fears of social rejection or not measuring up to someone's standards of acceptibility. (I was also abashed to discover that my reaction to the picture of the two girls -- "Wow, they're both attractive, but the one on the left is really cute" reonsated uncomfortably with your story.)

I was also reminded again that you're a quite talented writer, and that your stuff is fun to read.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

That's why the test (the actual TAT test) was interesting to me. If 100 people take it, you'll get radically different responses to the same images.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

fears of social rejection or not measuring up to someone's standards of acceptibility.

Very, very common in women who grew up with an absentee father or a father who didn't care about them. We then turn to the rest of the world for the affirmation we never got. Sad but very true.

The girl in red instantly reminded me of myself at that age, physically. I immediately stepped right into "her" perspective, though it was really my own from years gone by.

Thank you for the writing compliment! I'm enjoying the writing workout very much. In the later ones, I noticed myself defaulting into "write to entertain" mode, which I suppose detracts from the personallity assessment value of the test. But its helping me remember how much fun writing is -- something I forget at times when I approach it with the wrong set of motivations.

[guxx.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you want to know the real story (as I remember it) regarding who I refer to as "Viking Man." That's a picture I took in 2001...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Might as well hear it...