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10 males and 6 females ranked 9 color samples in order of appropriateness for the walls of a simulated building interior. Half the subjects were informed that the neutral simulation represented a living room, and the other 8 that it was a bedroom. The results supported the hypothesis that the judged appropriateness of color varies with room function.

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Room Function and Appropriateness Judgments of Color

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