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Perseveration and Personality: Some Experiments and a Hypothesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Raymond B. Cattell*
Affiliation:
School Psychological Clinic, City of Leicester

Extract

So far the attempts to relate measurements of perseveration empirically to types of personality, whether in the normal or the psycho-pathological field, have not given rise to such coherent results as might lead to any comprehensive general hypothesis.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1935 

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