1. Augmenters and reducers: a note on a replication failure
- Author
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Anne Broadhurst and David W. Millard
- Subjects
Adult ,Repetition (rhetorical device) ,Reducer ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Personality Assessment ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ,Figural Aftereffect ,MMPI ,Replication (statistics) ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Personality ,Humans ,Female ,Personality Assessment Inventory ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,Kinesthesis ,media_common - Abstract
Exact repetition of P etrie's (1967) method of determining kinaesthetic figural after-effect did not allow a reliable categorisation as Augmenter or Reducer to be made for members of a group of 20 normal women. Doubt is consequently thrown on the value of this measure for personality typing.
- Published
- 1969