The Rorschach inkblot test is a test that records the subjects perceptions of a given inkblot. These inkblots are created by literally blotting ink on a piece of paper that is folded in half and ...

Watchmen, the blockbuster film adaptation of a beloved graphic novel, opens Friday. The movie’s vigilante hero, Rorschach, spends much of his screen time hidden behind an ink-splattered mask. We’re ...

The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design will open, “What Might this Be?” The Art & Science of Rorschach Inkblots, on Tuesday, Oct. 8 from 5 p.m. – ...

In 2003, a handful of American clinical psychologists launched a frontal assault on the Rorschach inkblot test, saying that there should a "moratorium" on the use of the test, especially with regard ...

In the classic Rorschach test, the psychoanalyst shows a patient a bunch of inkblots and asks what each looks like. The responses are supposed to help guide the psychoanalysis by offering insight into ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac, November 8th, 1884, 131 years ago today ... the day Hermann Rorschach was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He grew up to become a psychiatrist -- and the ...

The evocative blobs and curves of the Rorschach inkblots are ubiquitous. By now, nearly a century after a Swiss psychiatrist developed them—as a neutral panel of images designed to elicit revealing ...

A psychiatrist holding up an inky blob and saying “what does this look like?” might be the most famous psycholigical test of all time. Originally developed by Hermann Rorschach as means of detecting ...