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An somewhat interesting article on the this, citing some works that found evidence in either direction:

http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue22/features/golden/ind...

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There was a great article debunking golden ratio woo linked from a comment here at some point in the past, and I can't find it for the life of me. I wish I still had it so I could send it to my designer friends that insist on using it everywhere.

EDIT: Found it! http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm