Fifteen pictures are included here for reproduction by researchers who wish to use any of these pictures for thematic apperceptive research. They will be referred to by means of the numbers given below.

1. Ship captain

2. Architect at desk

3. Couple on bench by river

4. Two women in lab coats in laboratory

5. Trapeze artists

6. Man and woman with horses and dog

7. Woman seated by girl reclining in chair

8. Four women

9. Kneeling woman fitting chair cover

10. Two women preparing food

11. Man with cigarette behind woman

12. Two men (“inventors”) in a workshop

13. Four men seated at a table

14. Man and children seated at a table

15. Conference group: seven men around a table

The first six pictures, in that order, were used by David McClelland and his associates to obtain the practice stories included in appendix I. These pictures were chosen to elicit imagery for the achievement, affiliation, power, and intimacy motives as well as for Psychological Stances (see chapter 31) and Activity Inhibition (see chapters 5 and 9).

The same six pictures have been used by McAdams in the his research on intimacy. McAdams uses them in the following order: 3, 2, 1, 5, 4, and 6.