Form D of the Activity Vector Analysis (AVA) was administered to 153 Senegalese students in French. They were requested to give their perceptions of the president of Senegal Abdou Diouf and of the president of Libya Gaddafi. The AVA profiles (4943 for Diouf and 6617 for Gaddafi) about which the public images clustered very heavily (N = 86 for Diouf and N = 135 for Gaddafi) suggest personalities perceived as substantially different from one another.
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