title: Eye color and judgments of aesthetic value of shapes.
abstract: 47 university students provided judgments of the aesthetic value of polygon and histogram shapes that were either symmetric or asymmetric. A sigificant over-all preference to symmetric shapes was evident (p less than .05), and judgments were significantly more positive for brown-eyed subjects. Furthermore, the aesthetic values assigned to shapes showed a systematic interaction with eye color such that brown-eyed subjects produced higher aesthetic ratings for symmetric shapes than blue-eyed subjects, while no such differences appeared for asymmetric shapes.
mesh_terms: D004954:Esthetics; D005127:Eye Color; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male