The Apparent Warmth of Colors

Mogensen, Meryl F.; English, Horace B.

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“…In some respects, our results are consistent with the effects of object colour reported by Mogensen and English13, but the relationship between the two studies deserves careful consideration. In their study, participants were asked to touch two equally heated cylinders each of which were wrapped in six coloured papers and judge the warmer of the two.…”

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“…Although direct manual exploration is the most intuitive and natural way for people to obtain veridical temperature information of the external world, few studies have addressed the effect of colour on perceived temperature of touched objects. An exception is an old report by Mogensen and English13, in which participants touched two cylinders wrapped in different coloured papers and judged which seemed the warmer. Although Mogensen and English showed some effects of colour on temperature judgments (e.g., green was more likely to be judged to be warm than purple), their results did not lead to a clear conclusion as to how red and blue colours influence temperature judgments.…”

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Combining colour and temperature: A blue object is more likely to be judged as warm than a red object

Iwai

Yoshikawa

et al. 2014

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It is commonly believed that reddish colour induces warm feelings while bluish colour induces cold feelings. We, however, demonstrate an opposite effect when the temperature information is acquired by direct touch. Experiment 1 found that a red object, relative to a blue object, raises the lowest temperature required for an object to feel warm, indicating that a blue object is more likely to be judged as warm than a red object of the same physical temperature. Experiment 2 showed that hand colour also affects temperature judgment, with the direction of the effect opposite to object colours. This study provides the first demonstration that colour can modulate temperature judgments when the temperature information is acquired by direct touch. The effects apparently oppose the common conception of red-hot/blue-cold association. We interpret this phenomenon in terms of “Anti-Bayesian” integration, which suggests that the brain integrates direct temperature input with prior expectations about temperature relationship between object and hand in a way that emphasizes the contrast between the two.

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Combining colour and temperature: A blue object is more likely to be judged as warm than a red object

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Yoshikawa

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“…Earlier studies have examined this so-called "hue-heat" hypothesis using highly saturated colored surfaces or lights (Morgensen and English, 1926;Houghton et al, 1940;Berry, 1961). In 1941, Kruithof reported a feeling of comfort affected by color temperature and illuminance of lights and suggested that the use of cool light sources at low illuminances resulted in a dim or cold appearance, while warm sources at high illuminances produced unnatural color appearances.…”

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Effects of Color Temperature of Fluorescent Lamps on Body Temperature Regulation in a Moderately Cold Environment.

Yasukouchi¹,

Yasukouchi²,

Ishibashi³

2000

J. Physiol. Anthropol.

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A study on the effects of different color temperatures of fluorescent lamps on skin and rectal temperatures in a moderately cold environment involving (i) changes in skin temperature of 7 male subjects exposed to an ambient temperature ranging from 28°C to 18°C (experiment I) and (ii) changes in skin and rectal temperatures and metabolic heat production of 11 male subjects exposed to ambient temperature of 15°C for 90 min (Experiment II) was conducted. In Experiment I, the reduction of mean skin temperature from the control value was significantly greater under 3000 K than under 5000 K or 7500 K lighting. In Experiment II, the reductions in mean skin temperature and rectal temperature were respectively greater and smaller under 3000 K than those under 5000 K or 7500 K lighting. However, metabolic heat production was not affected by color temperature conditions. The relationships between morphological and physiological parameters revealed that no significant relation of rectal temperature to body surface area per unit body weight was found only under 3000 K. Furthermore, while the mean skin temperature was independent on the mean skinfold thickness under 3000 K, a significant negative correlation between the rectal and mean skin temperatures was observed. Therefore, body heat loss might be suppressed effectively by increasing the vasoconstrictor tone under a color temperature of 3000 K, and the body shell was dependent only on morphological factors under 5000 K and 7500 K lighting.

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“…While he admitted the obvious differences between the several modalities, he felt that the degree of communality between them -3had been greatly underestimated. This doctrine was also evident in the work of other researchers of that era who postulated intersensory attributes such as volume (Halverson, 1924;Rich, 1916;Titchener, 1910), thickness (Moul, 1930), roughness (Von Schiller, 1935), warmth (Morgensen & English, 1926), and weight (Monroe, 1925).…”

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“…Researchers have also attempted to demonstrate that shifts in the character of judgments about a sensation can be produced by stimulation in a different sensory modality. Effects of this kind have been described by London (1954), Morgensen and English (1926), Pangborn (1960), Vernon (1937), Von Schiller (1935), andZietz (1931). For example, Zietz reported finding that color sensation could be modified by auditory stimuli.…”

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A Scaling Study of Synesthetic Thinking

Wicker¹

1966

ETS Research Bulletin Series

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The Apparent Warmth of Colors

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Combining colour and temperature: A blue object is more likely to be judged as warm than a red object

Combining colour and temperature: A blue object is more likely to be judged as warm than a red object

Effects of Color Temperature of Fluorescent Lamps on Body Temperature Regulation in a Moderately Cold Environment.

A Scaling Study of Synesthetic Thinking

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