How projection became empathic accuracy.
Dec 30, 2019
Susan Lanzoni,
When the young psychologist Rosalind Dymond arrived at Cornell University in 1946, she set out to design some of the first experiments to measure empathy. Dymond began by assessing empathy with the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)—a set of cards depicting images of archetypal personalities and dramatic scenes created by psychologist Henry Murray and artist Christiana Morgan. Subjects scrutinized the images and told stories about the figures in the pictures. These stories were frequently drawn from the subject’s own experiences."
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