What do you see on Google's homepage today? Be careful how you answer, as it might provide a peek inside your psyche.
The search giant is paying tribute to Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach, who is best known for his inkblot tests. Rorschach would show his patients images of what were basically just blobs of ink, and ask them what they saw. The idea was that their responses provide insight into their thinking, and highlight any possible disorders.
As a result, Google.com features the doctor sitting in his office, with the Google logo spelled out in the photos and window behind him. In the foreground, however, are a pair of hands holding up a Rorschach Test. "Share what you see," says a link underneath the image; click it to share on Google+, Facebook, or Twitter.
Flip through the images using the arrows. I saw Batman, two ghosts, and a chandelier, while others just looked like nothing. Google suggested in a tweet that the inkblots could be mini dinosaur acrobats or a parachute. Check it out for yourself on Google.com.
Rorschach, meanwhile, was born in Zurich in 1884. After deciding on a career in psychology, he worked in Switzerland, Germany, and Russia, but ultimately returned to Switzerland.
Over time, Rorschach developed an interest in art and drawing, which perhaps "stemmed from the fact that his father had been a teacher of art and drawing," a McGraw hill biography speculated. That led him to analyze the artwork of mental patients, before turning to inkblots, which were discussed in his 1921 book, Psychodiagnostik.
That book was actually rather dense and not exactly a gripping read, researchers noted. According to McGraw-Hill, "Rorschach's monograph had the effect of creating a cottage industry within the mental health field, yet it was not at all a success at the time of its publication." Unfortunately, Rorschach died at 38, only a year after his book was published.
For more of Google's doodles, see the slideshow below. Recently, the search giant has honored the first parachute jump, the , Yosemite National Park, French physicist Léon Foucault, Hull House Founder Jane Addams, Rembrandt van Rijn, and more.
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