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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~ruby/aaa/milton.html Faces of Madness: Seeing abnormality through photography (Explanation of test with photographs)]
* [http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~ruby/aaa/milton.html Faces of Madness: Seeing abnormality through photography (Explanation of test with photographs)]
* [http://www.szondi.ch Hompage of Szondi-Institute (in German)]
* [http://www.szondi.ch Homepage of Szondi-Institute (in German)]
* [an online version of the test in French http://users.skynet.be/am030868/szondi.htm]
* [an online version of the test in French http://users.skynet.be/am030868/szondi.htm]
* [http://home.scarlet.be/~tsc32552/ Homepage of CEP (Centre d’Etudes Pathoanalytiques)]
* [http://home.scarlet.be/~tsc32552/ Homepage of CEP (Centre d’Etudes Pathoanalytiques)]
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* [http://www.asiamedica.com/szondi.htm Computer implementation (in Russian)]
* [http://www.asiamedica.com/szondi.htm Computer implementation (in Russian)]


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Revision as of 04:26, 28 February 2008

The Szondi test is a psychological exam named after its Hungarian creator, Léopold Szondi in the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest Hungary. It is a projective personality test, similar to the well-known Rorschach test. The test consists of a series of 48 different photographs of the faces of mental patients. The subject is instructed to choose the two most appealing and unappealing photos. The photos the subject chooses will supposedly reflect his or her own pathology.

Szondi further broke down the results into four different vectors: a homosexual/sadistic, epileptic/hysterical, catatonic/paranoid and depressive/manic.

Szondi believed that people are inherently attracted to people similar to them [citation needed]. His theory of genotropism states that there are specific genes that regulate mate selection, and that similarly-gened individuals would seek each other out.

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