Form D of the Activity Vector Analysis (AVA) was administered to 131 Senegalese students in French. They were requested to give their perceptions of the former poet-president of Senegal L. S. Senghor. The AVA profile (5915) about which the public images clustered very heavily (N = 93) is identical to that which previously represented the ideal perception of the President of the United States in 1964 but not the current one.
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