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- Title
Transforming Psychological Testing With Saccadic Responses: Internal Consistency is High for Rorschach and Facial Expressions.
- Authors
Dauphin, Barry; Greene, Harold H.; Juve, Mindee; Boyle, Mellisa; Day-Suba, Ellen
- Abstract
Psychologists have long been interested in the underlying visual perceptual processes associated with forming responses to certain psychological tests, including the Rorschach Ink Blot Test, which modern users conceptualize as a conceptual problem-solving task. Accordingly, we used eye tracking technology to assess the internal consistency of saccadic responses to both the Rorschach Ink Blot Test and a facial expression task. Internal consistency was highest for eye Fixation Duration (FD) and Saccade Amplitude (SA), and both FD and SA measures in the Rorschach were positively related to the same measures in the facial expression task. Given this high internal consistency of FD and SA for viewing Rorschach ink blots and viewing pictures from well-known collections of facial expressions, and given high correlations between these eye tracking measures across the two tasks, FD and SA may now be used in further studies of eye movements in visuo-attentive psychological/neuropsychological tests (e.g., the Thematic Apperception Test). Reliability of these eye movement measures across tasks enables their use for better understanding of underlying visual processes and improved interpretations of the meaning of behavioral responses to psychological/neuropsychological tests.
- Subjects
EYE physiology; SACCADIC eye movements; FACIAL expression; INDIVIDUALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; THEMATIC analysis; TECHNOLOGY
- Publication
Perceptual & Motor Skills, 2023, Vol 130, Issue 5, p1985
- ISSN
0031-5125
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00315125231188564