Toward a Psychology of Knowledge: IV. Further Illustrations of the Hypothesis regarding Philosophical Conservatism and Rorschach Movement Responses

This paper offers further illustrations of the hypothesis that Rorschach form and movement responsivity are differentially associated with political philosophy, specifically, that form responsivity is associated with Enlightenment philosophy and movement responsivity with Burkean philosophy. The illustrations are drawn from Robert Nisbet's “Conservatism and Sociology” and Werner Stark's “Conservative Tradition in the Sociology of Knowledge.”