Fig 2. Children’s aesthetic preference across all experiments.

Half violin plots with data points on the other half show a kernel density estimate of the full distributions of the percentage of choices for the preferred forms. Both in experiment 1 and 3, children who were exposed to symmetric forms showed a significant preference for symmetry compared with chance, while children who were exposed to asymmetric forms showed no preference. Children with no exposure to any type of form in experiment 2, showed no significant preference.