TY - JOUR
AU - LYONS, JOSEPH
AB -  JOSEPH LYONS, Veterans Admtmstratton Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky 1 HE TERM "physiognomic" as introduced by Wemer (24) designates a mode of cognition in which we perceive objects "as directly expressing an inner form of hfe," that is, in the same manner in which we usually experience a physiognomy, or the facial expressions, gestures, or acts of living organisms According to those who share this view (3, 9, 10, 20, 22), all objects can partake of such physiognomic qualities, this applies as well to words which symbolize objects The apprehension of such dynamic aspects is usually contrasted with a "geometncal-techmcal" mode of cognition The main question asked in the present study is whether there exists a d)mamically lawful relationship between the meaning of a word and the response to it in a line drawing (nonrepresentational) Earher work by Kluver (8) and by Krauss (11) with German students as Ss yields strong evidence for such physiognomic responsiveness m the graphic medium In an unpubhshed pilot study Kluver obtained remarkable agreements among 53 S's m their matchings of poems with geometric figures. Krauss reported striking physiognomic expressions m the drawmg of lines to accord with words of varying emotional content He states 
TI - Line Drawings and Matching Responses to Words1
JF - Journal of Personality
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1957.tb01525.x
DA - 1957-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/line-drawings-and-matching-responses-to-words1-A7jOZap3pe
SP - 251
EP - 273
VL - 25
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -