About one third of the combined freshman responders perceived harmony between evolution and creationism; less than one quarter of sophomore, junior, or senior agreed with this view.
Its perceived harmony offers some contrast to our constructed world.
In particular, we suspected that perceived harmony might be the relational variable that would best complement preferences for the component figure and ground colors in explaining people's preference ratings for color pairs.
Findings previously reported by Ou and colleagues (Chuang & Ou, 2001; Ou et al., 2004a, 2004b; Ou & Luo, 2006) suggest that perceived harmony of color pairs is closely related to pair preference.
Supplementary Material Fig. S 8 shows pair preferences separately for observers with low, moderate, and advanced formal training in color together with regression models that examine how perceived harmony and preference for component colors differentially explain pair preference ratings for each of the three groups.
Our measurements suggest that the best single relational variable in predicting pair preferences is perceived pair harmony, because average pair harmony ratings appear in all of the best-fitting regression models of average pair preference, accounting for 62% of the variance.
This fact indicates that, whatever perceived color harmony might be, people are in better agreement about it than about their preferences for the same colored displays.
The same 10 Munsell factors tested for pair preference in Experiment 1 were analyzed in regression analyses to predict perceived color harmony.
But we can sensuously perceive an order or harmony to those aspects without intellectually distinguishing them.
These higher notes, far from being perceived as conventional harmony, function as harmonics that alter the timbre of the fundamental note like mixture stops on a pipe organ.
