Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity
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- Domicele Jonauskaite
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
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- Ahmad Abu-Akel
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
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- Nele Dael
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
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- Daniel Oberfeld
- Institute of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
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- Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University
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- Abdulrahman S. Al-Rasheed
- Department of Psychology, King Saud University
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- Jean-Philippe Antonietti
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
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- Victoria Bogushevskaya
- Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
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- Amer Chamseddine
- School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
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- Eka Chkonia
- Department of Psychiatry, Tbilisi State Medical University
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- Violeta Corona
- Escuela de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad Panamericana
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- Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero
- Department of Educational Sciences, University of La Rioja
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- Yulia A. Griber
- Department of Sociology and Philosophy, Smolensk State University
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- Gina Grimshaw
- School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington
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- Aya Ahmed Hasan
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University
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- Jelena Havelka
- School of Psychology, University of Leeds
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- Marco Hirnstein
- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen
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- Bodil S. A. Karlsson
- Division of Built Environment, Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Eric Laurent
- Laboratory of Psychology, University Bourgogne Franche–Comté
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- Marjaana Lindeman
- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki
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- Lynn Marquardt
- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen
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- Philip Mefoh
- Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria
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- Marietta Papadatou-Pastou
- School of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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- Alicia Pérez-Albéniz
- Department of Educational Sciences, University of La Rioja
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- Niloufar Pouyan
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
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- Maya Roinishvili
- Laboratory of Vision Physiology, I. Beritashvili Center of Experimental Biomedicine, T’bilisi, Georgia
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- Lyudmyla Romanyuk
- Faculty of Psychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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- Alejandro Salgado Montejo
- Escuela Internacional de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de La Sabana
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- Yann Schrag
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
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- Aygun Sultanova
- National Mental Health Centre, Ministry of Health, Baku, Azerbaijan
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- Mari Uusküla
- School of Humanities, Tallinn University
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- Suvi Vainio
- Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
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- Grażyna Wąsowicz
- Department of Economic Psychology, Kozminski University
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- Sunčica Zdravković
- Department of Psychology, University of Novi Sad
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- Meng Zhang
- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University
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- Christine Mohr
- Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
説明
<jats:p> Many of us “see red,” “feel blue,” or “turn green with envy.” Are such color-emotion associations fundamental to our shared cognitive architecture, or are they cultural creations learned through our languages and traditions? To answer these questions, we tested emotional associations of colors in 4,598 participants from 30 nations speaking 22 native languages. Participants associated 20 emotion concepts with 12 color terms. Pattern-similarity analyses revealed universal color-emotion associations (average similarity coefficient r = .88). However, local differences were also apparent. A machine-learning algorithm revealed that nation predicted color-emotion associations above and beyond those observed universally. Similarity was greater when nations were linguistically or geographically close. This study highlights robust universal color-emotion associations, further modulated by linguistic and geographic factors. These results pose further theoretical and empirical questions about the affective properties of color and may inform practice in applied domains, such as well-being and design. </jats:p>
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- Psychological Science
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Psychological Science 31 (10), 1245-1260, 2020-09-08
SAGE Publications