Description

The Luscher color test is a psychological testinvented by Dr. Max Luscher in Basel, Switzerland. Max Luscherbelieved that sensory perception of color is objective anduniversally shared by all, but that color preferences aresubjective, and that this distinction allows subjective states tobe objectively measured by using test colors.

Luscher believed that because the color selections are guided in anunconscious manner, they reveal the person as they really are, notas they perceive themselves or would like to be perceived.

In the shorter Luscher test, the subject is made to sit before 8colored cards that are also numbered and asked to choose the colors/he likes best. This card is then taken off and the subject ismade to continue selecting colors in preferred order until allcards have been selected and taken off.

The test is repeated with the same cards again since this helps thepsychologist ensure whether the subject has been sure about hischoices rather than being impulsive. When the first time and secondtime results are identical or almost identical; psychologists mayinterpret this to be an “emotional inflexibility or rigid attitudetowards life”.

he extended version of the test has 5015 precise definitions alongwith 34 predetermined personality traits, some of which lie outsidethe realm of the conscious. For the color test to be effective, thesubjects must choose the colors in an unconscious manner to revealhow s/he actually is from within and not how s/he would like to beperceived.