| dc.description.abstract | During the past few years there has been a surge of interest among psychologists in the borderland around the area of perception. The work of Murphy (50,55,63,74), Bruner (10,16,60,61), and Klein (43,47) and their respective collaborators, among others, reflects a shift of attention from perception as one way of studying the whole person. It has become almost a commonplace that various states of the organism, such as fatigue (21,48,66,85), drug intoxication (81,85), hunger (51,67,68), thirst (47), personal value or need involvement (1,2,3,14,19,63,64), and social pressures (76) can influence perception in a predictable manner. All these studies document the growing conviction that perception in general can be influenced by motivational and situational factors. It is not a long step from this conviction to the belief that personality and perception are not as discrete aspects of the person as tradition would have them, and that such studies, especially those which indicate the extent to which perception can be “influenced” by values and needs, implicate personality as the source of these influences. | |
