Abstract
Studies have suggested that colors are associated with mood-tones. The following research was conducted to determine the extent to which color-mood associations exist for 200 college-aged adults. Significant differences in performance on a color-mood association task were found between 154 male and 46 female Ss of the same academic discipline as well as between 154 men and 46 women of two different disciplines.
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