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Part VI - Color preferences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Andrew J. Elliot
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University of Rochester, New York
Mark D. Fairchild
Affiliation:
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
Anna Franklin
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
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