This report describes a Bulgarian replication with 173 students of a German study concerning the effect of stimulus properties of complexity and order and authoritarian attitudes on the perceived pleasantness of polygons. Analyses of variance yielded neither significant main effects nor significant interactions for the different measures of authoritarianism, but there were significant main effects for order and complexity.
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