Infant color preference for red is not selectively context specific

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1155-1160

  Franklin, Anna ^a   Gibbons, Emily ^a   Chittenden, Katie ^a   Alvarez, James ^a   Taylor, Chloe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color; Context; Infant; Preference

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; COLOR; COLOR PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; PHOTOGRAPHY;

ANGER; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INFANT; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84874499875     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025333     Document Type: Article

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