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work_6nc2l533hbdxzpejjluuvvnb5m	Blair Alexander	Aesthetic preference and resemblance of viewer's personality to paintings	1983	3	.pdf	application/pdf	3534	400	56	personality "types" prefer characteristic genres or subject matters in paintings. that is, subjects seem to like those paintings with characteristics that in some way resemble their own personalities. refer to the hypothesis that people tend to prefer paintings that have qualities similar to those qualities perceived in their own personality. We designed this experiment to test directly the role of selfreference in preference for paintings: Each subject rated Cattell (1946, 1965), Guilford (1959), Osgood, Suci, and subject, the order of adjectives differed on the painting questionnaire and self-questionnaire within a single run, and on the two the subjects liked the paintings and the similarity of perceived self to paintings, we performed correlations separately for each subject, using data from the 12 paintings summed across adjectives and the total score was correlated with the subject's reported liking for the painting. similarity of that painting to the subject's ideal self.	./cache/work_6nc2l533hbdxzpejjluuvvnb5m.pdf	./txt/work_6nc2l533hbdxzpejjluuvvnb5m.txt