Personality dynamics and auditory perceptual recognition.

There have been many recent experiments, which have studied the relationships between perceptual behaviors and need states. The study, which the author is reporting here, is basically personality-centered. This means that the author has used perceptual behavior as a means of studying personality dynamics. An extensive bibliography dealing with the correlations between needs and values and perceptual recognition thresholds for need-related stimuli has accumulated. A few examples of experiments in this area may be noted. Along with these experiments has come a great deal of controversial discussion concerning the nature of the relationships. Many of the articles in this area have been concerned with the nature of the perceptual process itself. In this paper the author is not concerned with the controversial issues concerning the definition of perception. Regardless of the types of mechanisms and processes, which may be involved, the author believes that the obtained correlations afford an excellent opportunity to study personality dynamics. In this report the author is concerned with the expression of sexual and aggressive needs on a sentence completion test and the auditory recognition of sexual and aggressive.