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Feeling Blue or Seeing Red? Similar Patterns of Emotion Associations With Colour Patches and Colour Terms.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Do we feel colours? A systematic review of 128 years of psychological research linking colours and emotions.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Pooled it
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- The Clinical Significance of the Manchester Colour Wheel in a Sample of People Treated for Insured Injuries.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Analysis of the impact of different background colors in VR environments on risk preferences.Cognitive processing · 2025Article
- Text-to-image models reveal specific color-emotion associations.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Emotions reflected in colours: experiences of nursing students during the COVID-19 period.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Task-irrelevant valence-preferred colors boost visual search for a singleton-shape target.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Effects of environmental colours in virtual reality: Physiological arousal affected by lightness and hue.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- A redesigned mood induction procedure: The emotional rollercoaster of life under experimental control.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2023Article
- Anger is red, sadness is blue: Emotion depictions in abstract visual art by artists and non-artists.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- The good, the bad, and the red: implicit color-valence associations across cultures.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Red biases sex categorization of human bodies.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Consensus Paper: Current Perspectives on Abstract Concepts and Future Research Directions.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
- Understanding Color Associations and Their Effects on Expectations of Drugs' Efficacies.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Significant and persistent improvements in time in range and positive emotions in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes using a closed-loop control system after attending a virtual educational camp.Acta diabetologica · 2022Article
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- English colour terms carry gender and valence biases: A corpus study using word embeddings.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
For many, colours convey affective meaning. Popular opinion assumes that perception of colour is crucial to influence emotions. However, scientific studies test colour-emotion relationships by presenting colours as patches or terms. When using patches, researchers put great effort into colour presentation. When using terms, researchers have much less control over the colour participants think of. In this between-subjects study, we tested whether emotion associations with colour differ between terms and patches. Participants associated 20 emotion concepts, loading on valence, arousal, and power dimensions, with 12 colours presented as patches (
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