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Colour-Form Response as a Function of Mental Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. D. Keehn  and
Aimee Sabbagh
J. D. Keehn
Affiliation:
American University of Beirut
Aimee Sabbagh
Affiliation:
American University of Beirut
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Although Külpe (14) used only three subjects in his original experiment on tachistoscopic memory in 1904 his classification of them into colour, form and intermediate types has initiated a substantial amount of psychological research all over the world. Thus investigations into both normal and abnormal personality correlates of reaction to colour and form have been carried out in France (8), Poland (1), Italy (5), (18), Japan (17), Britain (6), (9), (16), America (4), (23), Sweden (2), (15), and Germany (20), (21) to quote but a representative sample.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 102 , Issue 427 , April 1956 , pp. 319 - 323
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1956 

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