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Originally Posted by Calista+12
What is this? Never heard of it.
" they had changed the drop the hanky question--and I knew what it meant this time and was ready for it--I was so disapointed! I quess there must have been a lot of people like me who had never heard of that before."
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to all concerned about the MMPI and"hanky" question -
one of my co workers just told me the very first copy of the MMPI written in the 1940's did have a question about playing a game called drop the hanky... back in the 1940's thats how a woman showed a man she wanted to spend time with him if he picked it up it meant yes he wanted her services... (prostitution and dating game)
that question was removed from the MMPI in the 1980's because women no longer used dropping hankies for prostitution and dating.
its purpose on the very first MMPI was to test for promiscuity and what was called "Hysteria" back in the 1940's Hysteria is now called Hystrionic personality Disorder.