Variability of color choice in the Lüscher Color Test - Sex differences

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 647-656

  Kertzman, Semion ^a   Spivak, Baruch ^a,b   Ben Nahum, Zeev ^a   Vainder, Michael ^b   Reznik, Ilya ^a,b   Weizman, Abraham ^b   Mester, Roberto ^a,b  

^a NESS ZIONA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 1542677275     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.97.2.647     Document Type: Article

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