On the Validity of Hypotheses Derived from the Rorschach: The Relationship between Color and Affect,Update 1992

Abstract

A review of research since the last review in 1976 reconfirms the conclusion that how persons will express their emotions does not necessarily bear any relationship to the nature of their responses to color on the Rorschach. It is not only time for clinicians to give up this color-affect hypothesis with regard to Rorschach data but to conduct some basic, exploratory research to examine, empirically, whether a relationship does exist between persons' characteristic modes of expressing their emotions and their characteristic styles of responding to the Rorschach.