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Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2015, 5(11), 640-647 Published Online November 2015 in Hans. /journal/ap /10.12677/ap.2015.511083 Developmental Characters and Reason Analysis of Number Preference 1 2 3 3 3 3 Bihua Cao , Yongfen Li , Li Yang , Ming Gao , Xiangling Wang , Mingyang Yu 1 School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang Jiangxi 2 Student Affairs Division, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian Liaoning 3 Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience Research, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian Liaoning st th th Received: Oct. 21 , 2015; accepted: Nov. 4 , 2015; published: Nov. 13 , 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract To investigate the developmental characters and formed reasons of number preference, a total of 1186 subjects from the third graders, the seventh graders, Senior One students and undergra- duates took part in this experiment. They were asked to sort number 0 - 9 in terms of the likeabil- ity degree using rank-order methods. Results indicated that: 1) when the index is percentage, both the third graders and the seventh graders least liked the number 0, whereas they most liked the number 1 and 6, respectively. Senior One students and undergraduates both most liked the num- ber 7 and least liked the number 4. 2) When the study uses the average score as the index, the number 6 was the favorite number for the third graders, the seventh graders and Senior One stu- dent