Rosén, Anne‐Sofie&Schalling, Daisy. Studying cognitive adaptive processes by means of the Serial Colour Word test. A methodological analysis and a clinical application.Scand. J. Psychol., 1972, 13, 17–26.—Performance on the Serial Colour Word Test (CWT), assumed to reflect cognitive adaptive processes, was studied in a group of criminals. By means of a latent profile analysis of clinical ratings and personality questionnaire scores subgroups of psychopathic and anxiety‐prone subjects were identified. On the basis of findings by Smith et coll. psychopathic subjects were expected to perform differently from anxiety‐prone subjects. Time scores on the CWT were analyzed by several methods. Expected group differences were not obtained. Methodological problems in the administration and scoring of the Serial CWT were discussed and some modifications