Questions concerning constitutional influence on perceptual style were answered in the affirmative by a comparative study of the field-dependency of identical and fraternal twins as measured by Witkin's Embedded Figures Test, Short Form. The results also contradicted previous findings that there is a significant sex difference in dependence upon the perceptual field.
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