Cross-cultural color-odor associations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Levitan, Carmel A ^a   Ren, Jiana ^b   Woods, Andy T ^c   Boesveldt, Sanne ^b   Chan, Jason S ^d   McKenzie, Kirsten J ^e   Dodson, Michael ^a   Levin, Jai A ^a   Leong, Christine X R ^e   Van Den Bosch, Jasper J F ^d,f  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Xperiment   (Switzerland)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALAY (PEOPLE); MALE; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; ASSOCIATION; CHINA; COLOR; COLOR VISION; ETHNOLOGY; MALAYSIA; ODOR; SMELLING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; CHINA; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; NETHERLANDS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903977902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101651     Document Type: Article

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