Experimental investigation into the relationship between the autokinetic illusion and personality factors requires greater knowledge of the generality of the various findings on individual differences. The stability of autokinetic movement was investigated by varying several conditions: instructional set (accuracy vs illusion), light source (stationary vs moving), sex of E, number and length of trials, re-test time interval. Results for female college Ss lend support to the hypothesis that one dimension of apparent movement, length of line, is a stable individual characteristic.
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