Szondi test

Szondi test
Purposepersonality test

The Szondi test is a 1935 nonverbal projective personality test developed by Léopold Szondi. He theorized that people's unconscious choices—such as emotional reactions to photographs—could reveal genetically inherited “drives” that shape their fate.

The test has received criticism for its psychometric limitations and theoretical foundations. In a 2006 Delphi poll of U.S. psychologists, it was rated as “probably discredited” for personality assessment; however, the authors noted that 36.6% of respondents were unfamiliar with the test and emphasized that expert consensus does not equate to scientific validity.

Despite the criticism, the Szondi test continues to be used in some European psychoanalytic and projective diagnostic traditions, and has recently been reexamined in the context of modern affective science and epigenetics.

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