Editing Thematic Apperception Test (section)

{{Short description|Projective psychological test}}
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The '''Thematic Apperception Test''' ('''TAT''') is a [[Projective test|projective psychological test]] developed during the 1930s by [[Henry A. Murray]] and [[Christiana D. Morgan]] at [[Harvard University]]. Proponents of the technique assert that subjects' responses, in the narratives they make up about ambiguous pictures of people, reveal their underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world.<ref>Schacter, Daniel, Daniel Gilbert, and Daniel Wegner. Psychology. 2nd. New York: Worth Publishers, 2009. 18. Print.</ref> Historically, the test has been among the most widely researched, taught, and used of such techniques.<ref>[http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Thematic+Apperception+Test Definition of Thematic Apperception Test] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109070138/http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Thematic+Apperception+Test |date=2014-11-09 }} at [[TheFreeDictionary.com]]</ref>