In factor analysis, two factors emerged, an emotional factor and a cognitive factor. The cognitive factor was made up of the complexity,meaningfulness, interestingness, pleasantness, and familiarity scales. The emotional factor was made up of the warmth, emotionality, arousal, and dominance scales. The cognitive factor explained a majority () of the variance in the art pictures and 14% of the variance in the emotional photographs. The emotional factor explained almost fifty percent () of the variance of the emotional photographs and of the variance in art pictures. .
