This is a replication of an earlier study relating personality to painting style. As in the previous study we are interested in the relation between fatalism as measured by Rorter's inrernal vs external locus of control scale and preference for classical vs romantic art. The prediction that external locus of control (fatalism) is positively related to preference for romantic building and vice versa was confirmed.
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