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A Study in Psychodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

J. P. Guilford
J. P. Guilford*
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska
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In seeking a suitable topic for the address at this annual event of the psychometricians, I tried to keep in mind the motto of our official publication, Psychometrika, to promote “the development of psychology as a quantitative, rational science.” The best that I have been able to do falls short of this ideal in two important respects. Although the material that I am to bring before you pretends to be quantitative, in the sense that measurements have been made, the problem has not been rationalized and the data have thus far yielded only to graphical treatment.

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Psychometrika , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 1939, pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © 1939 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

Presidential Address Given at the Psychometric Society Meeting, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September 7, 1938

References

* Guilford, J. P., “The Affective Value of Color as a Function of Hue, Tint, and Chroma,” J. Exper. Psychol., 1934, 17, 342-370.

† Munsell Book of Color. Baltimore: Munsell Color Company, 1929.

* As a matter of fact, owing to an earIy limitation upon the selection of color samples, an original set of 211 was judged for affective value by one group of 20 observers, and later an additional set of 105 colors was judged by a new group of 20 similar judges. The comparability of the judges in the two sets is supported by the fact that 12 colors from the first set of 211 which were mixed with the 105 new ones received very nearly the same average affective values in the two cases and by the fact that the continuity of the functions te be described later was not noticeably disturbed. The reliability coefficient was obtained from the first set of judges who rated the 211 colors.

* Washburn, M. F., Clark, D., and Goodell, M. S., “The Effect of Area on the Pleasantness of Colors,” Amer. J. Psychol., 1911, 22, 578-579.

* Tinker, M. A., “Effect of Stimulus-Texture upon Apparent Warmth and Affective Values of Colors,” Amer. J. Psychol., 1938, 51, 532-535.

* Troland, L. T. The Mystery of Mind. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1926, Ch. 15.