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In an unrestrained-choice color-naming task 26 males and 29 females responded to 21 colored chips from the Farnsworth-Munsell series. The females provided a significantly greater number of different color names for the chips than did the males. The data also showed that the leisure activities of the females were more color-dependent than those of the males. It is suggested that the observed sex differences in color-naming performance are learned differences in the expression of color appreciation.
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Swaringen et al. (1978) studied this question.
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