We chose to evaluate the packaging of Barilla pasta and a bottle of Izadi wine (see Fig. 1) because both pasta and wine packages tend to include a salient central design element whose orientation, we hypothesise, is key to the packaging aesthetic and product perception. As the latter had a downward-pointing black triangle on the label that we thought, based on the available evidence, it may be liked a little less by consumers (since downward pointing triangles have been reported to be associated with threat; see Larson et al., 2007 and Shen et al., 2015; see also Toet & Tak, 2013). The experimental design and subsequent data analysis was based on that introduced by Michel et al. (2015).