Google on Friday paid tribute to Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach on his 129th birth anniversary with an inkblot test doodle.
Visitors to Google's website were met with an interactive doodle that lets them share their interpretations of random inkblots, IBN Live reported.
The interpretations can be shared to social networks like Google+, Facebook, and Twitter, it added.
But as always, clicking on the spyglass icon will take the visitor to a Search Results page for Hermann Rorschach.
Rorschach was born in Zurich, Switzerland, on November 8, 1884.
He combined psychoanalysis and art to create the Rorschach Inkblot Test, introducing the "form interpretation experiment" in his book Psychodiagnostics in 1921, Biography.com said.
But he died at the young age of 37 on April 22, 1922, of peritonitis.
Rorschach was the first researcher to use inkblots to "analyze how patients projected their own associations onto seemingly random stimuli," Biography.com said.
He tested his system on 300 patients and 100 control subjects using 10 inkblot cards, half in color, and half black and white.
"Patients were shown one card at a time and asked to respond while Rorschach wrote down their answers. Afterward, Rorschach showed patients the cards again and prompted them to explain their answers. Rorschach evaluated test results based on the criteria of location, quality, content and conventionality. He used the data to draw conclusions about the patient's social behavior," it added. – KDM, GMA News
source: gmanetwork.com
