The Rorschach test is a psychological test designed by psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in the early 1900s. The test involves presenting a subject with images of inkblots; the person then describes what ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a small town in Switzerland in 1917, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach began carefully splattering paint on cards to ...

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 ...

Almost 100 years after its creation, the Rorschach test remains a widely used scientific tool in psychology and serves as a cultural catchall in the popular imagination. Author and translator Damion ...

The red-and-black splashes on the card are bustling with images: bad-tempered crows, a butterfly in a belly and even a couple of blood-stained kidneys -- if it isn’t a pair of monkeys contemplating ...

“I am a Rorschach test,” Hillary Clinton told Esquire magazine in 1993. The label stuck — everything from her campaign to her “no-makeup face” has been described similarly. She’s not the only one.

Iconic blots of ink on today's Google Doodle honor Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday. But over a century later, the validity of his famous psychological test—the Rorschach—depends ...