A cross-cultural comparison of colour emotion for two-colour combinations

Color Research and Application

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-43

  Ou, Li Chen ^a   Ronnier Luo, M ^a   Sun, Pei Li ^b   Hu, Neng Chung ^b   Chen, Hung Shing ^b   Guan, Shing Sheng ^c   Woodcock, Andrée ^d   Caivano, José Luis ^e   Huertas, Rafael ^f   Treméau, Alain ^g   Billger, Monica ^h   Izadan, Hossein ⁱ   Richter, Klaus ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^h CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

ⁱ ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^j Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und prüfung ^*  (Germany)

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Author keywords

age effect; colour emotion; colour preference; cultural difference; design training; gender difference

Indexed keywords

AGE EFFECTS; ARGENTINA; CATHODE RAY TUBE DISPLAYS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; GERMANY; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; THEORY OF COLOUR;

CATHODE RAY TUBES; CATHODES; DESIGN; SEMANTICS;

COLOR;

EID: 83655191742     PISSN: 03612317     EISSN: 15206378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/col.20648     Document Type: Article

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