Effects of Colors on Emotional Recognition from Facial Expressions by Line Drawing

Kato, M.; Yamashita, Toshiyuki

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“…Experiment 2 was designed using the emotions happiness and sadness and the colors yellow and blue. Recent Japanese studies suggested that happiness was associated with yellow and sadness with blue (Ikeda, 2018; Kato & Yamashita, 2016). Considering the results of experiment 1, it was predicted that the directionality of association between color and emotion would be replicated in experiment 2, that is, color influences the detection of emotion, but emotion does not influence detection of color.…”

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“…Through these studies, it has been shown that the process of emotion recognition was different for actual facial expressions than for emoticons (Takahashi, Oishi, & Shimada, 2017). On the other hand, it has been suggested that background color influences emotion recognition from emoticons (Kato & Yamashita, 2016); if color is associated with emotion, the background color would influence the ease of detection for emotion recognition from emoticons as well as actual facial expressions. With this in mind, this study also investigated the nature of the association between color and emotion recognition from emoticons.…”

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Influence of Color on Emotion Recognition Is Not Bidirectional: An Investigation of the Association Between Color and Emotion Using a Stroop-Like Task

Ikeda

2019

Psychol Rep

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The association between color and emotion has been shown, with red facilitating recognition of anger and green facilitating recognition of happiness. However, it has been unclear if emotional stimulus conversely facilitates and/or inhibits recognition of such colors. This study used a Stroop-like task, which required participants to ignore facial expressions and recognize color, in order to investigate the influence of emotion on recognition of color. In addition, this study investigated the association between color and emotion recognition from emoticons, as it was recently suggested that the process of emotion recognition from emoticons was different from that of actual faces. Results revealed that for facial expressions and emoticons, color influenced emotion recognition, in line with previous studies. Conversely, facial expression did not influence recognition of color. The results suggest that in emotion recognition people consider surrounding contextual information and integrate it automatically; however, in color recognition, they do not.

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Influence of Color on Emotion Recognition Is Not Bidirectional: An Investigation of the Association Between Color and Emotion Using a Stroop-Like Task

Ikeda

2019

Psychol Rep

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“…Although previous studies have suggested various color-emotion associations, some associations have been controversial, particularly the association between blue and sadness. For example, the perceived intensity of sadness in facial stimuli displaying ambiguous emotion was higher when the stimuli were colored in blue (Kato and Yamashita, 2016). Geometric patterns (e.g., circles, squares) drawn in blue tend to increase the sadness rating (Hevner, 1935).…”

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Effects of color–emotion association on facial expression judgments

Takei

Imaizumi

2022

Heliyon

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Color and emotion are metaphorically associated in the human mind. This color-emotion association affects perceptual judgment. For example, stimuli representing colors can affect judgment of facial expressions. The present study examined whether colors associated with happiness (e.g., yellow) and sadness (e.g., blue and gray) facilitate judgments of the associated emotions in facial expressions. We also examined whether temporal proximity between color and facial stimuli interacts with any of these effects. Participants were presented with pictures of a happy or sad face against a yellow-, blue-, or gray-colored background and asked to judge whether the face represented happiness or sadness as quickly as possible. The face stimulus was presented simultaneously (Experiment 1) or preceded for one second by the colored background (Experiment 2). The analysis of response time showed that yellow facilitated happiness judgment, while neither blue nor gray facilitated sadness judgment. Moreover, the effect was found only when the face and color stimuli were presented simultaneously. The results imply that the association of sadness with blue and gray is weak and, consequently, does not affect emotional judgment. Our results also suggest that temporal proximity is critical for the effect of the color-emotion association (e.g., yellow-happiness) on emotional judgment.

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“…For example, the perceived intensity of sadness in facial stimuli displaying ambiguous emotion was higher when the stimuli were colored in blue (Kato & Yamashita, 2016).…”

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Effects of color–emotion association on facial expression judgments

Takei¹,

Imaizumi²

2021

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Color and emotion are metaphorically associated in the human mind. This color–emotion association affects perceptual judgment. For example, stimuli representing colors can affect judgment of facial expressions. The present study examined whether colors associated with happiness (e.g., yellow) and sadness (e.g., blue and gray) facilitate judgments of the associated emotions in facial expressions. We also examined whether temporal proximity between color and facial stimuli interacts with any of these effects. Participants were presented with pictures of a happy or sad face against a yellow-, blue-, or gray-colored background and asked to judge whether the face represented happiness or sadness as quickly as possible. The face stimulus was presented simultaneously (Experiment 1) or preceded for one second by the colored background (Experiment 2). The analysis of response time showed that yellow facilitated happiness judgment, while neither blue nor gray facilitated sadness judgment. Moreover, the effect was found only when the face and color stimuli were presented simultaneously. The results imply that the association of sadness with blue and gray is weak and, consequently, does not affect emotional judgment. Our results also suggest that temporal proximity is critical for the effect of the color–emotion association (e.g., yellow–happiness) on emotional judgment.

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Effects of Colors on Emotional Recognition from Facial Expressions by Line Drawing

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

Influence of Color on Emotion Recognition Is Not Bidirectional: An Investigation of the Association Between Color and Emotion Using a Stroop-Like Task

Influence of Color on Emotion Recognition Is Not Bidirectional: An Investigation of the Association Between Color and Emotion Using a Stroop-Like Task

Effects of color–emotion association on facial expression judgments

Effects of color–emotion association on facial expression judgments

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