This study involved an investigation of the relationships between visual and auditory autokinetic phenomena. An apparatus was designed to obtain quantifiable records of the perceived auditory autokinetic loudness and pitch effects. Several methods were devised to score these records. When the auditory and visual autokinetic scores were correlated, all of the obtained coefficients were positive, four correlations were significant at the .05 level (only one was expected by chance), and one correlation at the .01 level. Some associated unanswered questions were discussed to indicate certain problems for future investigation. The statistical analyses indicated a tentative affirmation of the hypothesis that both the auditory and visual autokinetic phenomena are to a significant extent determined by a central, relatively stable perceptual style. The relationship of this perceptual style to other stable character traits has been suggested by Voth and Mayman (18). They have reviewed some of the major dichotomous character typologies (e.g., extroversion-introversion, field dependent-field independent, etc.) in relation to the visual autokinetic effect. Although further discussion of these aspects is beyond the scope of this paper, Voth and Mayman propose psychotherapeutic as well as heuristic significance to their findings which future study may further validate.

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