47 university students provided judgments of the aesthetic value of polygon and histogram shapes that were either symmetric or asymmetric. A significant over-all preference for symmetric shapes was evident (p < .05), and judgments were significantly more positive for brown-eyed subjects. Furthermore, the aesthetic values assigned to shapes showed a systematic interaction with eye color such that brown-eyed subjects produced higher aesthetic ratings for symmetric shapes than blue-eyed subjects, while no such differences appeared for asymmetric shapes.
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