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12 - Color categorization across cultures

from Part IV - Color categorization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

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Jules Davidoff
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Mark D. Fairchild  and
Anna Franklin
Andrew J. Elliot
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University of Rochester, New York
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Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
Anna Franklin
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University of Sussex
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Handbook of Color Psychology , pp. 259 - 278
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