Effects of Angle, Sex, and Cue on Adults' Perception of the Horizontal

Abstract

This study required adult Ss to draw a line to indicate the water level on drawings of tilted glasses. It was a repetition of the Rebelsky (1964) work on horizontality with the addition of a cue-noncue variable. Women, being more field-dependent than men, were expected to make greater use of the additional line cue. The field dependency hypothesis was not substantiated. Results further indicated significant differences associated with S's sex, the angle of tilt, and a direction by cue interaction. Differences in techniques of scoring and data analysis which precluded precise comparisons of studies using these stimuli were noted.