Color and emotion: effects of hue, saturation, and brightness

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Psychological Research

• Publication date

  2017-06-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/s00426-017-0880-8PMID 28612080
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