The present experiment' investigated the general question of whether the perception of unstructured stimuli is related to (1) the anxiety level of the perceiver or ( 2 ) the appropriateness of the color to the form of the stimulus. From 400 students who were administered the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, 18 high anxious and 18 low anxious Ss were selected. Nine unstructured stimuli were chosen, eight from parts of the Rorschach blots and one constructed by E. Each of these stimuli was reproduced in an achromatic form and two colored forms, one appropriately colored, the other, inappropriately, as determined by h e most usual concept suggested by the form. Each S was presented by means of a tachistoscope with 9 of the 27 possible combinations of form and color in a counterbalanced design. S looked into the tachistoscope eyepiece and E turned a switch which exposed the stimulus and started a timer. The stimulus was presented until S responded. S was instructed to state what the stimulus reminded him of, and whether he liked the stimulus, disliked it, or felt neutral toward it. In addition to the content and response, reaction time was recorded. In analyzing the results the degree of difficulty of each blot, derined by mean reaction time, was considered in addition to the above described variables. Analysis of the emotional response data showed that high anxious Ss gave significantly (X' = 4.10; df = 1 ; p < .05) more emotional responses than low anxious Ss. Analysis of variance of the reaction time data showed a significantly (F = 3.43; df = 2/68; p < .05) greater mean reaction time to the inappropriately colored stimuli as compared with that for the appropriately colored and achromatic stimuli. When square root transformations of the skewed reaction time data were analyzed, however, this difference no longer obtained. The content of the responses, interestingly enough, was not influenced by appropriateness or inappropriateness of the color even when difficulty level was taken into consideration. In general, then, the results showed that emotional attitude toward the stimuli was related to S's anxiety level but, like previous findings (cf. Baughman, 1958) , there was little evidence to support the view char perception of unsrrucrured stimuli is influenced by the color or incongruity between the color and form of the stimulus.