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The golden section hypothesis
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This paper found that the mean proportion of positive adjectives used in making interpersonal judgements is an excellent approximation of the golden section and suggested that Boucher & Osgood's "strikingness hypothesis" should be extended to include the possibility that a person is able to pay special attention to negative events.Abstract:
The golden section is a proportion the aesthetic properties of which have been extolled since antiquity. The data from five experiments in which subjects made dichotomous judgements of acquaintances on bipolar dimensions (e.g. pleasant-unpleasant) were reported. These data indicated that the mean proportion of positive adjectives used in making interpersonal judgements is an excellent approximation of the golden section. An explanation of this finding was offered in terms of Berlyne's ‘strikingness hypothesis’. It was suggested that Boucher & Osgood's ‘Pollyanna hypothesis’ should be extended to include the possibility that, by tending to organize his judgements in the golden section ratio, the person is able to pay special attention to negative events.read more
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