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The present research aimed at comparing the thinking styles and sensation seeking in undergraduate art and mathematics students. The type of research was causal-comparative, and the target population of this study was comprised of all the undergraduate female students studying art and mathematics at the art and architecture faculty and Payambar Azam Educational Complex of Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch. Via relative stratified sampling, 662 female students were chosen from the target population. These students were studying in the second semester of the Iranian school year 87-88. To assess the thinking styles and sensation seeking of the participants, Sternberg’s Thinking Styles Inventory (TSI; Sternberg, 1997a) and Arnett’s Inventory of Sensation Seeking (AISS; Arnett, 1994) were respectively administered. After collecting the data, the hypotheses of the study were tested by independent samples t-test, which resulted in the following findings: (a) judicial, monarchic, hierarchic, global, and local thinking styles in art students are not significantly different from those in mathematics students (p < 0.05), (b) internal thinking style in art students is significantly higher than that in mathematics students (p < 0.01), (c) external thinking style in mathematics students is significantly higher than that in art students (p < 0.05), (d) executive and conservative thinking styles in mathematics students are significantly higher than those in art students(p < 0.01), (e) anarchic (p < 0.05) and legislative, oligarchic, and liberal (p < 0.01) thinking styles in art students are significantly higher than those in mathematics students, and (f) sensation seeking in art students is significantly higher than that in mathematics students (p < 0.01).

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