An Approach to Use of Color on the Rorschach through Individual Color Preferences

A Psychometric Approach to the Measurement of Color Preference

“…inasmuch as the Rorschach color responses are at best only indirectly affected by color, the use of the results of Rorschach studies either to support or to refute the coloremotionality hypothesis is invalid." That no particular color on the Rorschach is consistently associated with any particular emotion (Frank, 1976), and response to color has been found to be affected by hue (Cook, 1967;Hill, 1966), saturation (Dubrovner, et al, 1950), and area of the visual field encompassed by the color (Frank, 1976), the appropriateness of using Rorschach responses as the criterion measure has come into serious question. As Frank (1976) has commented, ".…”