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The subjects are told first to cross out all the words in small letters 
which are connected in their mind, or associated, with the word in capitals 
at the beginning of each list. They are then told to go through the lists 
again, and draw a circle around the one word in each list which is most 
closely connected with the capitalized word. The words are chosen very 
carefully with reference to pathological conditions and criminology. Thus 
following “DREAM” is the word “floating”, since according to certain 
psychiatrists dreams of floating have a definite significance. Following 
“DEATH” are the words “water”. “self”. “welcome”, ‘hopeless’, as words 
naturally associated by many persons going through an emotional crisis. 
The test has back of it a large body of research going to show-that in path- 
ological conditions peculiar connections between ideas are a very important 
symptom. The words used are primarily words of strong emotional con- 
tent, with the idea that an emotional condition would show itself also 
in more extensive associations. Scoring again takes into account both 
of these possibilities: first the number of words crossed out is counted, 
then the number of peculiar associates, in selecting the word most closely 
connected with the capitalized word. 
The third test consists of twenty-five lists of which the five below will 
serve as examples: 
begging swearing smoking flirting spitting 
fear hate anger jealousy suspicion 
dullness weakness ignorance innocence meekness 
careless fussy reckless silly childish 
poor extravagant sporty shrewd bad-mannered 
The subjects are told first to cross out everything they consider wrong. 
Then they are told to go through again and draw a circle around the one 
thing in each list they consider worst. The test is an attempt to put in a 
convenient group test form an ethical discrimination test. The general 
purpose of the test is obvious, and it need hardly be said that it has a long 
history and an obyious relevance in the study of delinquents. Scoring 
again is in terms of total words crossed out (or extensiveness of the moral 
attitude of the individual) and unusual selection of the worst thing (or 
idiosyncrasy in moral judgment). In general. an effort has been made to 
obtain judgments as to the comparative importance of different types of 
wrong-doing, as in the first list, or to obtain an indication of the tendency 
of one’s prejudices, as in the fourth. 
The fourth test consists of twenty-five lists such as: 
injustice noise self-consciousness discouragement germs 
clothes conscience heart-failure poison sleep 
sickness enemies money blushing failure 
falling queerness religion dizziness boss 
sin operation conspiracy lightning marriage 
The subjects are told, first of all, to cross out all the things in this list 
about which they have ever worried, and then to go over the lists again and 
draw a circle around the one word in each list about which they have 
worried most. Again the scoring is in terms of the total number crossed 
