Golden Section Hypothesis In Interpersonal Judgment

The study of golden section can be traced back to the Pythagoreans in the ancient Greek, and Euclid gave an integral geometry solution to it and proved it in his famous monograph Elements. After the Revival of Leaming, golden section was used more and more extensively by artists and architects. In psychology, Fechner started the studies of the golden section. There are two fields which forces on golden section, the one is aesthetic properties, and the other is golden section in interpersonal judgment.Benjafield and Adams-Webber’s golden section hypothesis predicts when subjects make dicho tomous judgments about a series of acquaintances or identities in terms of bipolar dimensions, they will tend to use positive adjectives62percent of the time. The golden section hypothesis has been repeated by subjects with different ages, culture, emotion status and mental health status. But all studies only confirmed whether the mean of positive adjective ratio is golden section.This study forced on the subjects who used the golden section.We divided subjects to three groups, golden section group, Optimist and Pessimist. The procedure was similar to Benjafield and Adams-Webber’s studies. Subjects used12dimensions to judge three distributions photos and14identities. We also compared the personality difference between three groups. The results:1. Subjects used0.608percent of positive adjective to judge social identities. There was no significant difference between positive adjective percent and golden section.2. Both means and groups distributions were significant difference between the judgment of social identities and photos. It supported our hypothesis that different object type influenced golden section preferences.3. There was no significant difference in the judgment of three distributions photos. It supported that the golden section preference did not been influenced by the level of object.4. There was no sex difference in interpersonal judgment. Objective gender only influenced the positive adjective percent of female.5. In Big Five, neuroticism was the only dimension which had the significant negatively correlation with interpersonal judgments.