Heckhausen had suggested that geometrical figures which Berlyne had labelled most complex (MC) on information theoretical terms were actually less complex than their alternatives when judged phenomenologically. However, in a recent experiment, 20 Ss almost unanimously judged the MC figures to be the most complex.
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