Personality and preference for painting style.
40 university students were asked to choose between the cubist or surrealist from among 15 pairs of slides of paintings according to their aesthetic preference. Their choices were correlated with scores on Rotter's internal vs external locus of control scale. The data support the hypothesis that there is a positive relationship between preference for cubism over surrealism and internal locus control and vice versa.
D001154:Art; D004954:Esthetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010151:Paintings; D010551:Personality