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  In modern psychology, “colors” are considered among the standards for evaluating personalities. They could be regarded a great and significant source for subjective readings and the analysis of mental characteristics, both national and ethnical. From the psychology of the applied colors in different literary works in every ethnicity, delicate and spectacular points could be gained and in this way, a bridge, about the characteristics of the same people between psychology knowledge and folklore literature could be created. In this article, along with studying the aesthetical and artistic characteristics of the love songs of Talesh ethnicity, we try to analyze its colors with the eight functional colors of Max Lüscher’s color tests  in order to realize some of the psychic-mental characteristics of the people of this region (Talesh) from the words of the unknown composers of their songs. The research method is descriptive-analytic, and the information gathering method is both field- and library- based. In this study around 50 Taleshian love songs in which different kinds of colors are used, from the most frequent colors to the least used ones, were analyzed. The results indicated the psychic-mental characteristics of the people of the region in exposing beliefs and emotions, pressures, sensibilities, disappointments, joys, etc

Keywords: Song, Talesh ethnicity, Color, Psychology, Max Lüscher

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