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=== Projective tests ===
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Projective testing originated in the first half of the 1900s.<ref name="Wasserman">{{Cite book|last=John D.|first=Wasserman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Z_rgY-Qb-sC&q=nonverbal+assessment|title=Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment|publisher=Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers|year=2003|isbn=978-0-306-47715-7|editor=McCallum|editor-first=Steve R.|place=New York|chapter=Nonverbal Assessment of Personality and Psychopathology|access-date=20 November 2010|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Z_rgY-Qb-sC&q=nonverbal+%22personality+and+psychopathology%22&pg=PA283}}</ref> The idea animating projective tests is that the examinee is thought to project hidden aspects of his or her personality, including unconscious content, onto the ambiguous stimuli presented in the test. Examples of projective tests include [[Rorschach test]],<ref>Meyer, G.J., Hilsenroth, M.J., Baxter, D, Exner, J.E., Fowler, J. C., Piers, C.C., Resnick J. (2002). An examination of interrater reliability for scoring the Rorschach comprehensive system in eight data sets. ''Journal of Personality Assessment, 78''(2), 219–274. doi:10.1207/S15327752JPA7802_03.</ref> [[Thematic apperception test]],<ref>Murray, H. (1943). ''The Thematic Apperception Technique''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. OCLC 223083.</ref> and the [[Draw-A-Person test]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Murray|first=Henry A.|title=Thematic Apperception Test manual.|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1943|location=Cambridge, MA|oclc=223083}}</ref> Available evidence, however, suggests that projective tests have limited validity.<ref>Lilienfeld, S.O., Wood, J.M., & Garb, H.N. (2000). The scientific status of projective techniques. ''Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 1''(2), 27–66. doi:10.1111/1529-1006.002. doi:10.1111/1529-1006.002</ref>