Colour-emotion associations in individuals with red-green colour blindness
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serval:BIB_F4DB54427B7B
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Colour-emotion associations in individuals with red-green colour blindness
Journal
PeerJ
ISSN
2167-8359
Publication state
Published
Issued date
07/04/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
9
Pages
e11180
Language
english
Abstract
Colours and emotions are associated in languages and traditions. Some of us may convey sadness by saying feeling blue or by wearing black clothes at funerals. The first example is a conceptual experience of colour and the second example is an immediate perceptual experience of colour. To investigate whether one or the other type of experience more strongly drives colour-emotion associations, we tested 64 congenitally red-green colour-blind men and 66 non-colour-blind men. All participants associated 12 colours, presented as terms or patches, with 20 emotion concepts, and rated intensities of the associated emotions. We found that colour-blind and non-colour-blind men associated similar emotions with colours, irrespective of whether colours were conveyed via terms (r = .82) or patches (r = .80). The colour-emotion associations and the emotion intensities were not modulated by participants’ severity of colour blindness. Hinting at some additional, although minor, role of actual colour perception, the consistencies in associations for colour terms and patches were higher in non-colour-blind than colour-blind men. Together, these results suggest that colour-emotion associations in adults do not require immediate perceptual colour experiences, as conceptual experiences are sufficient.
Keywords
Colour vision deficiency, Daltonism, Dichromatic, Deuteranopia, Protanopia, Colour cognition, Emotion, Affect, Cross-modal correspondences, Chromotherapy
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Open Access
Yes
APC
1195 USD
Funding(s)
Swiss National Science Foundation / Careers / P0LAP1_175055
Swiss National Science Foundation / Projects / 100014_182138
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11/04/2021 19:38
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12/04/2021 7:13