The Thematic Apperception Test (or TAT) is a projective personality test that was developed by Murray (1943) to better understand and measure underlying motives, concerns, and worldviews in meeting needs (including hunger, love, and sex [and social motives including achievement as articulated by McClelland, 1953]).

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