Preference Judgments for Polygons, Designs, and Drawings

484 Ss were administered 10 pairs of polygons, 10 pairs of designs, and 10 pairs of drawings from the Maitland-Graves Design Judgment Test, with instructions to indicate which of each pair they preferred. Pairs were constructed in each case by selection from larger numbers of items, in such a way that one was considered aesthetically superior to the other by a majority of judges; in this way a “correct” choice was established. Also administered were personality inventory items purporting to measure extraversion and neuroticism; the age, educational status and salary of each participant were noted. Factor analysis was performed on the intercorrelations between these various items, and relatively independent factors representing E, N, and the different aesthetic tests were found; there was no evidence that the polygon, design, and drawing tests were correlated with each other or associated with personality.