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15 - Early color symbolism

from Part V - Color symbolism and association

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

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Mark D. Fairchild  and
Anna Franklin
Andrew J. Elliot
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Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
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Handbook of Color Psychology , pp. 319 - 339
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