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SOME INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN FIGURAL AFTER‐EFFECTS
Author(s) -
McEWEN PETER,
RODGER ROBERT S.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1960.tb00718.x
Subject(s) - psychology , heron , extraversion and introversion , correlation , positive correlation , developmental psychology , social psychology , personality , big five personality traits , geometry , mathematics , medicine , biology , paleontology
Three different hypotheses have been proposed to account for individual differences in figural after‐effects (Klein & Krech, 1952; Wertheimer & Wertheimer, 1954; Eysenck, 1955). Each implies the existence of a positive correlation between the measures of after‐effect in different modalities. The study reported here explored this problem for vision and kinaesthesis. Thirty‐two subjects were used and no significant correlation was found (α = 0·05). Men showed significantly larger visual figural after‐effects than women, a finding analogous to Wertheimer's (1954a) in kinaesthesis. There was no significant rank correlation between either effect and extraversion‐introversion as measured by Heron's (1950) sociability index.