570 RECORD OF MEETINGS OF THE 



The Section met in conjunction with the New York Section 

 of the American Psychological Association. 



Summary of Papers. 



Drs. Woodworth and Bruner said that tests of different 

 races, made at the St. Louis Exposition, showed that red was 

 the color most often preferred, both by men and by women, 

 and by all the races tested. The predominance of red choices 

 was very great. Now previous authors have found, in the 

 white race, that red was a woman's choice, but blue that of 

 most men. This difference of result, as between the present 

 and previous authors, is probably due to the different material 

 used for presenting the colors — colored papers having previ- 

 ously been employed, whereas in the present tests use was made 

 of colored worsteds, such as are used in the Holmgren test for 

 color blindness. Special tests showed that the same individual 

 is very likely to express a different preference, according as 

 the colors are presented in paper, worsted, or glass. Many 

 persons were also found to dislike strongly the colors of the 

 rose, the violet, and the sunset, when presented in paper or 

 worsted. The inference is that the "color-tone" is by no means 

 a compelling factor in determining likes and dislikes of colored 

 objects. 



Dr. Tsukahara said that in an experimental study of the 

 effects of distraction on the apparent intensity of a stimulus, 

 a new method of distraction was employed. Two sorts of 

 stimulus— the sound of a falling ball and the impact on the 

 skin of a falling hammer— were employed, and sometimes 

 presented simultaneously, so that the attention had to be 

 divided between them. For instance, first a sound was given; 

 next, simultaneously, a sound and an impact; and last an 

 impact alone. The subject was required to compare the inten- 

 sities of the two sounds and also of the two impacts. The 

 result was that, contrary to the conclusion of Miinsterberg, 

 distraction decreased the apparent intensity of the stimuli; but 

 this result is so far merely provisional. 



Dr. Miller stated that in the psychology of intellectual bias 

 one may study the individual or type in its relation to a variety 



