X-rays of inner worlds: The mid-twentieth-century American projective test movement

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-278

  Lemov, Rebecca ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; HISTORY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBSERVATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MICRONESIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVATION; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES; UNITED STATES; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 79960064837     PISSN: 00225061     EISSN: 15206696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20510     Document Type: Article

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