The Relation of After-image Duration to Certain Aspects of Personality

Ph.D. University of Kansas, Psychology 1952In this study, consequently, to explore the relationship of personality characteristics to after-image duration, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (19) was used. In addition, the Otis Self Administering Intelligence Test, Higher Form, was used to provide a check on previous reports (42,49) that intelligence, too, is an important factor in after-image perception. To explore possible relationships between after-image duration and visual discrimination tasks flicker-fusion thresholds and brightness thresholds for the appearance and disappearance of the negative after-image were determined