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Abstract
To determine the effects of reading the Wikipedia article on the Rorschach on Comprehensive System variables, participants in this study (recruited from parent–teacher associations, online message boards, and graduate schools; N = 50) were provided with either a copy of the Wikipedia article on the Rorschach (from April 2010) or an irrelevant article, then administered the Rorschach and instructed to “fake good.” Monetary incentives were used to increase motivation to dissimulate. Initial results indicated that participants given the Wikipedia article produced a lower number of responses (R) and had higher scores on Populars, X+%, XA%, and WDA% as compared to controls. However, post-hoc analyses revealed that when the influence of Populars was controlled, significant differences for X+%, XA%, and WDA% disappeared. No significant differences were found for Form%, Zf, Blends, or PER, although post-hoc analyses controlling for differences in R revealed a significant difference between groups on Zf%. Limitations of the study and implications for clinical and forensic practice are discussed.
Acknowledgments
This research was supported by a grant from the Society for Personality Assessment. The authors would like to acknowledge Tara Trout, Zoe Adams-Deutsch, Marianne Giegerich, and Paul Hiatt for their assistance with data collection; Jessica Rutstein and Mandi Levine for aid in data analysis; and James Loving, Linda Knauss, and William Harver for their helpful feedback and suggestions on an earlier version of this article.
Douglas S. Schultz is now a staff psychologist at the Jane E. Mitchell forensic unit of the Delaware Psychiatric Center.
Notes
Both Wikipedia articles in this study were retrieved in April 2010. Because Wikipedia is constantly revised, the content of the current version of these articles is likely to vary from the content included at the time of this study.