Perceptual investigation of psychoanalytic theory concerning latent homosexuality in women.

Abstract

Female Ss were divided into two groups, High-Latent and Low-Latent Homosexual, on the basis of MMPI Scale 5. Both groups were shown tachistoscopically 6 pictures which had been chosen as being threatening or nonthreatening on the basis of psychoanalytic theory. The high group had longer latencies on each of the high-threat pictures and shorter latencies on each of the low-threat pictures than the low group. The results were accepted as supporting psychoanalytic theory concerning female homosexuality.