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A Method for Determining the Typicality of Personality Descriptions. (Applied to Assessing the Noticed After-Effects of Prefrontal Leucotomy.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. C. Raven
J. C. Raven*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Research, The Crichton Royal, Dumfries
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I. The Problem.

If we have a group of letters describing how discharged post-leucotomy patients are getting on, and what they are doing (1), it is useful to be able to determine how far the traits reported can be regarded as typical of post-leucotomy patients in general, peculiar to a particular clinical class, or unique to a single patient. Information of this kind clearly helps a doctor to predict what personality traits are likely to be noticed after the operation.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 94 , Issue 394 , January 1948 , pp. 114 - 117
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1948 

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References

(1) Frankl, L., and Mayer-Gross, W. (1947). Personality Change after Prefrontal Leucotomy. Lancet, Dec. 5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2) Eysenck, H. J. (1947), Dimensions of Personality. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. Google Scholar
(3) Raven, J. C. (1944), Controlled Projection. H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd. Google Scholar
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