The diagnosticity of color for emotional objects

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 609-622

  McMenamin, Brenton W ^a   Radue, Jasmine ^a   Trask, Joanna ^a   Huskamp, Kristin ^a   Kersten, Daniel ^a   Marsolek, Chad J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

BAS; Color; Emotion; Red; Visual attentional

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881261217     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-012-9319-0     Document Type: Article

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