Ability Identification, *Art, Behavior Rating

Slides of great modern art works by Picasso, Mondrian, and Van Gogh were selected as stimulus materials for an art test administered to a heterogeneous group of 395 college students. The slides were endorsed for desirability, and the results were factor analyzed. Scales of items with similar levels of endorsement from different factor scales were placed in a paired-comparison forced choice task and administered to college men. Attempts to validate the test across a wide variety of tasks, such as divergent thinking tests and personality tests, met with marginal success. The development and utilization of a free choice form of the art preference test with the same pictures as stimuli and with similar samples of men taking some of the same tasks as were completed by groups along with the fcrced choice form produced a greater number and greater magnitudes or significant correlations. Each of the ar