Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of subject-examiner seating and sex difference on the Rorschach responses. The subjects were undergraduate students. There were six examiners(3 males and 3 females) and each examiner administered Rorschach to two male and two female subjects under the side by side seating condition and face-to-face seating condition. Thus each examiner tested 8 subjects. The results were as follows. First of all, the main effect of the seating position was shown on only AG variable among the structural summary variables of the Rorschach. When compared with the face-to-face seating position, the side-by-side seating position produced the smaller number of AG response. Second, the frequency of pure human related response(H+Hd) on Card I was smaller in the side-by-side seating than in the face-to-face seating. Furthermore, in the case of face-to-face seating, reporting of pure human related response(H+Hd) on Card I increased the probability of delivering pure human related responses(H+Hd) on the other following cards. Consequently, it is suggested that there was a probability of the subjects being affected by cues from the examiner in the face-to-face seating unlike in the side-by-side seating. Also, the face-to-face seating position seems to make subjects have a responseset different from that of the side-by-side seating.