A black and white picture was displayed on the screen. Next to a staircase inside a western house, a woman in a long dress stood there expressionlessly.
"Captain Gu, you can start to interpret this picture now."
It was still the same spacious review room. Gu Jun sat on the chair and stared at the screen.
However, it was already 6 pm. The Rorschach Inkblot Test had been over for more than half an hour.
That took about 2 hours. Other than the 10 regular pictures, the 10 regular pictures from Phecda and the 10 specially designed pictures, Phecda added on top of that.
Gu Jun did not bother to calculate the score he would get, he just cooperated with the test. But after 30 pictures, most of the things he saw were related to darkness. There was no doubt that there was a great deal of gloom in his heart, but it was difficult for a man in his line of work to avoid it. This did not mean that he was swallowed up by the darkness, but was shrouded in shadows.
After the Rorschach Inkblot Test, Gu Jun took a 10 minute break to use the bathroom. When he returned, he started the next test.
Thematic Apperception Test, this was a projective personality test developed by Henry Murray and Christiana Morgan at Harvard University in the 1930s. It showed subjects a series of ambiguous pictures that evoked negative emotions, and subjects were asked to tell a story about each picture.
The story had to include:
The cause of the event
What is happening
The feelings and thoughts of the character
What is the ending of the story
Similar to other psychological tests, the reliability and validity of the Thematic Apperception Test was debatable but it also had a complicated scoring system. It could be evaluated from the duration, frequency, length, completeness, complexity and content of the story. It could even be broken down to every sentence the subject said.
However, due to the time-consuming nature of the scoring system, it was not widely used.
Therefore, experienced psychologists would rely on their clinical intuition to come up with some conclusions.
But for this test, every sentence that Gu Jun said to every picture, every story, and every sentence would be recorded and analyzed in detail.
The complete version of the Thematic Apperception Test contained 32 pictures. Some showed male characters, some showed female characters, some showed both male and female characters, some showed unclear gender, some showed adults, some showed children, and some showed no human characters. One of the cards was completely blank.
Although these cards were initially designed to cover all groups, any card could be used on any subject.
Founder Murray suggested using 20 cards for a test, but most practitioners would only choose 8 to 12 cards.
Gu Jun didn't know how many he had to make. It could be all or more. He also knew all the regular 32 picture cards like the back of his hand. However, he had been testing for more than half an hour and made seven pictures. He still hadn't seen a familiar picture. These all seemed to be new designs.
However, he was a little puzzled. A mature psychological test would only become mature after a long period of clinical data. Every old picture had to rely on a large number of medical cases to show the mechanism of existence. The uncertainty brought by new pictures could not be understood in a short time.
This time, there was such a big lineup of judges for him. If they wanted to test him clearly, it would not be appropriate to directly test him with something new.
Originally, there was no time limit for the participants to tell their stories, because the duration was also a factor in the score. But now, he only had five minutes to interpret each picture.
Any change in the scoring mechanism would cause a huge change in the entire system.
Now it was not just a thematic apperception test, there was also the Rorschach Inkblot Test and others …
Unless these were not completely new, unless … Mysterium was also involved.
Gu Jun naturally had an understanding of the psychology and psychiatry of the Mysterium World but he did not fully understand those that were related to Mysterium's secret technology. Even with the existence of Tian Xuan HQ, the technology exchange between Phecda and Mysterium was not fully shared, far from it.
Gu Jun's mind was a mess. If the organization really dragged Mysterium into the interrogation, then the trust they had in him …
It was not about the trust in the free medical plan between the two worlds, it was about the trust in him …
"Captain Gu?" Di Minghui asked again. "You have 4 minutes left." The judge on the right picked up the glass of water to take a sip.
These tests were a test of the spirit of the participants, but it was not easy for the judges either.
Even though they were the most experienced judges, they were facing the so-called Phecda Heroes.
"Hmm …" Gu Jun nodded. He looked at the expressionless woman in the picture. Perhaps the time limit was to lower his disguise, but he had no intention of pretending. He started to explain. "This woman is waiting for her husband to come home. It is raining heavily outside, the sky is dark, and the thunder is loud …"
As he said that, the picture seemed to come alive in his eyes. The thunder appeared to echo in his ears.
"It's already past seven o 'clock in the evening, and the rain is getting heavier, but her husband hasn't returned yet. Her husband usually returns home at six o' clock on time … At that time, there were no cell phones or telephones, so she couldn't contact her husband immediately.
The woman started to pray to her god, praying that nothing bad would happen to her husband.
They had been married for less than a year. They loved each other and lived a happy life. They were planning to have a child and many plans had been made.
Not long after the woman finished her prayers, the doorbell rang. She rushed to open the door. 'It's her husband, right? She thought.
She opened the door … "
At this point, Gu Jun paused as he took in a deep breath.
There were two stories going on in his mind, one was the original thought from the bottom of his heart and the other was a kind modification from his subconscious mind.
In the end, he chose the more intense kind of turbulence, loyal to the test, and said, "There was nothing on the porch. The woman only saw the storm outside. She didn't know if she had misheard, or if the doorbell had been ringing because of the debris blown away by the wind.
The storm lasted until the next morning, and her husband did not return home until dawn.
The next time the woman saw her husband was at the local police station's autopsy room that afternoon.
Her husband was dead. Last night, her husband was on his way home when he was hit by a tree that had been toppled by the storm. He died on the spot. "
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