ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2014
Failure to replicate the Mehta and Zhu (2009) color-priming effect on anagram solution times.
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- Green as a cbemcuru: modal as well as amodal color cues can help to solve anagrams.Psychological research · 2020Article
- A machine learning approach to quantify the specificity of colour-emotion associations and their cultural differences.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Do Red and Blue Uniforms Matter in Football and Handball Penalties?Journal of sports science & medicine · 2017Article
- Red vs. green: Does the exam booklet color matter in higher education summative evaluations? Not likely.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2016Article
- Color and psychological functioning: a review of theoretical and empirical work.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Review
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Abstract
Mehta and Zhu (Science, 323, 1226-1229, 2009) hypothesized that the color red induces avoidance motivation and that the color blue induces approach motivation. In one experiment, they reported that anagrams of avoidance motivation words were solved more quickly on red backgrounds and that approach motivation anagrams were solved more quickly on blue backgrounds. Reported here is a direct replication of that experiment, using the same anagrams, instructions, and colors, with more than triple the number of participants used in the original study. The results did not show the Mehta and Zhu color-priming effects, even though statistical power was sufficient to detect the effect. The results call into question the existence of their color-priming effect on the solution of anagrams.
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