Trial reportPloS one2014
Seeing life through positive-tinted glasses: color-meaning associations.
Trial report in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
- The effects of multi-sensory public seating on emotion regulation in youth communities.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Light green background enhances reading performance in visual display terminal tasks.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Light-eye-body axis: exploring the network from retinal illumination to systemic regulation.Theranostics · 2025Review
- Research on the construction of an urban underground parking space color system from the perspective of psychological perception.PloS one · 2025Article
- Mimicking Facial Expressions Facilitates Working Memory for Stimuli in Emotion-Congruent Colours.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Impact of perceived interpersonal similarity on attention to the eyes of same-race and other-race faces.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Article
- Mechanisms and Pathways of Pain Photobiomodulation: A Narrative Review.The journal of pain · 2021Review
- Development of a Sensory Method to Detect Food-Elicited Emotions Using Emotion-Color Association and Eye-Tracking.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- The Early Facilitative and Late Contextual Specific Effect of the Color Red on Attentional Processing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- A "Healthy" Color: Information About Healthy Eating Attenuates the "Red Effect".Global journal of health science · 2015Article
- Grounding context in face processing: color, emotion, and gender.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Feeling Blue or Seeing Red? Similar Patterns of Emotion Associations With Colour Patches and Colour Terms.i-PerceptionArticle
- Social reward shapes attentional biases.Cognitive neuroscienceArticle
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Abstract
There is a growing body of literature to show that color can convey information, owing to its emotionally meaningful associations. Most research so far has focused on negative hue-meaning associations (e.g., red) with the exception of the positive aspects associated with green. We therefore set out to investigate the positive associations of two colors (i.e., green and pink), using an emotional facial expression recognition task in which colors provided the emotional contextual information for the face processing. In two experiments, green and pink backgrounds enhanced happy face recognition and impaired sad face recognition, compared with a control color (gray). Our findings therefore suggest that because green and pink both convey positive information, they facilitate the processing of emotionally congruent facial expressions (i.e., faces expressing happiness) and interfere with that of incongruent facial expressions (i.e., faces expressing sadness). Data also revealed a positive association for white. Results are discussed within the theoretical framework of emotional cue processing and color meaning.
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