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Psychobiological Studies
I. The Relationship of Intellectual Productivity as Measured by the Rorschach Test to Body Weight
- CAROLINE BEDELL THOMAS, M.D., F.A.C.P.; and
- MILDRED A. KENDRICK, PH.D.
- Requests for reprints should be addressed to Caroline B. Thomas, M.D., 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore 5, Maryland.
Excerpt
Human judgments about other people are based on composite impressions of the individual's attributes of mind and body. The voter sizes up the presidential candidate not only by reading his speeches and his physician's reports, but, more importantly, by seeing for himself how the candidate looks, and by listening to what he has to say and how he says it. Is the candidate forceful, pompous, or wishy-washy? Is he cautious or rash? Does he have a temper? A sense of humor? Is he egocentric, or does he listen to others? After a political rally or a television debate, the voter
Acknowledgment
We should like to thank Mr. K. Subrahmaniam for his assistance.
Summario in Interlingua
In un gruppo de 510 mascule studentes medical de racia blanc al Universitate Johns Hopkins que prendeva individual tests Rorschach, obese subjectos dava le plus basse numero de responsas e subjectos con pesos infranormal le plus grande. Le curvas de procentages cumulative del responsas total (R) in le quatro sub-gruppos de subjectos (1) obese, (2) de peso supranormal, (3) de peso medie, e (4) de peso infranormal esseva distincte e monstrava un gradiente stabile. Le variation inter-gruppal de R esseva significativemente plus grande que le variation intra-gruppal de illo. Le differentias notate non poteva esser attribuite a differentias in le etate del subjectos o a differentias in le psychologos qui administrava le test Rorschach. Le attingimentos academic del gruppos obese e a peso supranormal in combination esseva levemente superior a illos del gruppos a peso medie e a peso infranormal in combination.
A base del presente studio il pare justificate usar determinantes psychologic si ben que variabiles somatic como predictores del susceptibilitate de contraher maladias.
Article and Author Information
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From the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Supported by Research Grant H-1891 from the National Heart Institute.
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- Received August 1, 1961.
- Accepted December 20, 1961.
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