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    Balance is key: Perceptual fluency as a link between trait incompleteness and symmetry preferences

    Year: 2019, 2019
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Boyle, Katherine, Thesis advisor (ths): Summerfeldt, Laura J, Thesis advisor (ths): Reynolds, Michael G, Degree committee member (dgc): Bauer, Ben, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>While preferences for symmetry are seemingly universal, they can be seen at their most extreme among individuals high in trait incompleteness. As yet, it is unclear why incompleteness yields heightened symmetry preferences. Summerfeldt et al. (2015) speculated that individuals high in incompleteness may develop heightened preferences for symmetry due to its greater perceptual fluency.… more