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An Investigation of How People of Different Age, Sex, and Temperament Estimate the World

Abstract

Results of a study on 167 subjects demonstrated that the basic semantic structure of consciousness is associated with a person's temperament, age, and sex. Concrete particularities of estimations and structure of the semantic space depend upon these biologically based characteristics. The results suggest the presence of a phenomenon of "projection through capacities": when a person registers only those aspects of objects or situation that he can properly react to and deal with in their own behavior.

Authors

Trofimova I

Journal

Psychological Reports, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 533–552

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

January 1, 1999

DOI

10.2466/pr0.1999.85.2.533

ISSN

0033-2941

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