Role-playing and standard instructions were administered to 100 Ss during autokinetic word-writing sessions. Role-playing instructions produced more words than standard instructions with no apparent loss of projection. It was hypothesized that role-playing instructions decreased the degree of ambiguity accompanying AWT. This hypothesis was not supported.
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