Piehl J
Percept Mot Skills. 1978 Jun;46(3 Pt 1):831-4. doi: 10.2466/pms.1978.46.3.831.
Seven rectangles with different ratios of the lengths of their sides but of approximately equal areas were presented to 120 subjects to asses their aesthetic preferences for each rectangle. The method of pair comparisons was used for presentation of the rectangles. Subjects tended to prefer the golden rectangle. Also rectangles in the vicinity of the golden rectangle were preferred to those deviating markedly from it.
向120名受试者展示了七个边长比例不同但面积大致相等的矩形，以评估他们对每个矩形的审美偏好。矩形的展示采用成对比较法。受试者倾向于更喜欢黄金矩形。此外，与明显偏离黄金矩形的矩形相比，接近黄金矩形的矩形更受青睐。
