Authors :
Dr. Rinita Jain
Volume/Issue :
Volume 11 - 2026, Issue 2 - February
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Abstract :
Colour psychology is the study of how colour affect human behaviour, mood or physiological processes. Colour
psychology is relatively a new area of study but have been proven to be effective with its results of knowing the deeper
layers of personality because every person have different perception about responses of colour. Colour Apperception Test
is a pictorial projective technique of personality assessment based on the psychology of colour. The test has been developed
by Dr. Rinita Jain. As with any projective technique an unstructured situation helps project feelings, need, emotions and
motives of the testee. Similarly with this test the testee when assigning meaning with a particular colour and the situation
gives two different angles of his personality.Firstly the popular perception which gives an index of the testee’s knowledge
according to the norms and Secondly the experiential perception which gives scores on remembering events and giving
personal experiential touch to the color.Its interpretation works to great extent in Murray's formulation on Thematic
Apperception Test but the interpretations have been simplified. It contains 27 colour cards and 11 colours. It works
effectively on age group 5-20 years. The test has high reliability and criterion validity as the testee relates completely with
the colour while performing the test.
Keywords :
CO.A.T, Colour Apperception Test, Color Psychology, Projective Technique, Popular Perception, Experiential Perception.
References :
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Colour psychology is the study of how colour affect human behaviour, mood or physiological processes. Colour
psychology is relatively a new area of study but have been proven to be effective with its results of knowing the deeper
layers of personality because every person have different perception about responses of colour. Colour Apperception Test
is a pictorial projective technique of personality assessment based on the psychology of colour. The test has been developed
by Dr. Rinita Jain. As with any projective technique an unstructured situation helps project feelings, need, emotions and
motives of the testee. Similarly with this test the testee when assigning meaning with a particular colour and the situation
gives two different angles of his personality.Firstly the popular perception which gives an index of the testee’s knowledge
according to the norms and Secondly the experiential perception which gives scores on remembering events and giving
personal experiential touch to the color.Its interpretation works to great extent in Murray's formulation on Thematic
Apperception Test but the interpretations have been simplified. It contains 27 colour cards and 11 colours. It works
effectively on age group 5-20 years. The test has high reliability and criterion validity as the testee relates completely with
the colour while performing the test.
Keywords :
CO.A.T, Colour Apperception Test, Color Psychology, Projective Technique, Popular Perception, Experiential Perception.
