The neuroticism factor of personality was compared with the romantic/classical dimension of art. Twenty‐five male and 25 female college students between 19 and 24 years of age participated. Subjects chose their preferred selection of each of 11 pairs of paintings, which had been rated by art specialists on a romanticism scale, and completed the Maudsley Personality Inventory as an index of neuroticism. Subjects choosing Romantic art tended to score higher in neuroticism than did those choosing classical paintings. A negative correlation between extraversion and choice of romantic paintings was also found.
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Rosenbluh et al. (1972) studied this question.