Age effects on colour emotion, preference, and harmony

Color Research and Application

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 92-105

  Ou, Li Chen ^a   Luo, M Ronnier ^a   Sun, Pei Li ^b   Hu, Neng Chung ^b   Chen, Hung Shing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

age effect; colour combination; colour emotion; colour harmony; colour preference; single colour

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION MECHANISM; AGE EFFECTS; LIFE SPAN; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COOLING SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; RATING;

COLOR;

EID: 84863183632     PISSN: 03612317     EISSN: 15206378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/col.20672     Document Type: Article

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