Whilst there are many anecdotal links between particular colours and particular emotions, there is relatively little in the way of systematic research. In this chapter a protocol is proposed for establishing these links empirically which is then tested on the emotional terms “pleasant”, “unpleasant”, “mood-enhancing” and “calming”. It was found that it is possible to establish reliable colour-emotion associations, at least with culturally homogeneous participants. A framework for understanding these associations is proposed.
2024. Have color representations in books changed over the past 200 years? An empirical analysis based on the Google Books Ngram corpus. Color Research & Application 49:1 ► pp. 65 ff.
Edwards, Thomas Mark
2023. Designing for Hope: Biophilic Color Associations and Their Relevance to Clinical Settings. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal 16:4 ► pp. 159 ff.
Gonigroszek, Dorota & Katarzyna Szmigiero
2023. Metaphorical meanings of colour in abstract art. Social Semiotics 33:3 ► pp. 497 ff.
Mercer, Johanna E.
2022. Managing Anxiety in Mammography: The Client and the Practitioner. In Digital Mammography, ► pp. 137 ff.
2022. Two billion registered students affected by stereotyped educational environments: an analysis of gender-based color bias. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9:1
2019. Pink for Girls, Red for Boys, and Blue for Both Genders: Colour Preferences in Children and Adults. Sex Roles 80:9-10 ► pp. 630 ff.
Langdridge, Darren, Mark Davis, Lucyna Gozdzielewska, Joanna McParland, Lynn Williams, Mairi Young, Fraser Smith, Jennifer MacDonald, Lesley Price & Paul Flowers
2019. A visual affective analysis of mass media interventions to increase antimicrobial stewardship amongst the public. British Journal of Health Psychology 24:1 ► pp. 66 ff.
2018. Effects of Gender and Luminance Backgrounds on the Recognition of Neutral Facial Expressions. In Multidisciplinary Approaches to Neural Computing [Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 69], ► pp. 315 ff.
Mohr, Christine, Domicele Jonauskaite, Elise S. Dan-Glauser, Mari Uusküla & Nele Dael
2015. Grounding context in face processing: color, emotion, and gender. Frontiers in Psychology 6
Hurlbert, Anya & Angela Owen
2015. Biological, cultural, and developmental influences on color preferences. In Handbook of Color Psychology, ► pp. 454 ff.
Spence, Charles, Xiaoang Wan, Andy Woods, Carlos Velasco, Jialin Deng, Jozef Youssef & Ophelia Deroy
2015. On tasty colours and colourful tastes? Assessing, explaining, and utilizing crossmodal correspondences between colours and basic tastes. Flavour 4:1
Moos, Anja, Rachel Smith, Sam R. Miller & David R. Simmons
2014. Cross-Modal Associations in Synaesthesia: Vowel Colours in the Ear of the Beholder. i-Perception 5:2 ► pp. 132 ff.
Stanulewicz, Danuta, Ewa Komorowska & Adam Pawłowski
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