Colour-emotion associations in individuals with red-green colour blindness
Détails
Etat: Public
Version: Final published version
Licence: CC BY 4.0
ID Serval
serval:BIB_F4DB54427B7B
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Colour-emotion associations in individuals with red-green colour blindness
Périodique
PeerJ
ISSN
2167-8359
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
07/04/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
9
Pages
e11180
Langue
anglais
Résumé
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.
Mots-clé
Colour vision deficiency, Daltonism, Dichromatic, Deuteranopia, Protanopia, Colour cognition, Emotion, Affect, Cross-modal correspondences, Chromotherapy
Site de l'éditeur
Open Access
Oui
APC
1195 USD
Financement(s)
Fonds national suisse / Carrières / P0LAP1_175055
Fonds national suisse / Projets / 100014_182138
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11/04/2021 19:38
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12/04/2021 7:13