The relation of dancing experience and personality to perception.

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60 professional dancers were compared with 103 college students on their respective performances "on the Witkin study of perception-personality relationship, in order to determine whether extensive body experiences would alter performance in space-orientation and other perceptual tasks". It was found that the perceptual performances of dancers did not differ significantly from their controls. Where differences were noted between the control and experimental group they were not in keeping with Witkin''s hypothesis that experience with the body is an important variable in space orientation performance. The author questions, on the basis of his findings, the validity of Witkin''s single field dependency-independency dimension.

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