33 male and 33 female undergraduate students were individually tested to determine the correlation between the perceived strength of an auditory and a tactile stimulus as measured by the subjective brightness of an adjustable light. While Ss discriminated between the relative strengths of the stimuli in each condition, there was no agreement as to the brightness of the light for each treatment. Also, there was no difference between responses by males and females.
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