The sun is no fun without rain: Physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries

Jonauskaitė, Domicėlė; Abdel‐Khalek, Ahmed M.; Abu‐Akel, Ahmad; Al-Rasheed, Abdulrahman S.; Antonietti, Jean‐Philippe; Ásgeirsson, Árni Gunnar; Atitsogbe, Kokou A.; Barma, Marodégueba; Barratt, Daniel; Bogushevskaya, Victoria; Meziane, Maliha Khadidja; Chamseddine, Amer; Charernboom, Thammanard; Chkonia, Eka; Ciobanu, Teofil; Corona, Violeta; Creed, Allison; Dael, Nele; Daouk, Hassan; Dimitrova, Nevena; Doorenbos, Cornelis B.; Fomins, Sergejs; Fonseca‐Pedrero, Eduardo; Gaspar, Augusta; Gizdić, Alena; Griber, Yulia A.; Grimshaw, Gina M.; Hasan, Aya Ahmed; Havelka, J; Hirnstein, Marco; Karlsson, Bodil S. A.; Katembu, Stephen; Kim, Jejoong; Konstantinou, Nikos; Laurent, Éric; Lindeman, Marjaana; Manav, Banu; Marquardt, Lynn; Mefoh, Philip C.; Mroczko-Wąsowicz, Aleksandra; Mutandwa, Phillip; Ngabolo, Georgette; Oberfeld, Daniel; Παπαδάτου-Παστού, Μαριέττα; Perchtold, Corinna M.; Pérez‐Albéniz, Alicia; Pouyan, Niloufar; Soron, Tanjir Rashid; Roinishvili, Maya; Romanyuk, Lyudmyla; Salgado‐Montejo, Alejandro; Sultanova, Aygun; Tau, Ramiro; Uusküla, Mari; Vainio, Suvi; Vargas-Soto, Veronica; Volkan, Eliz; Wąsowicz, Grażyna; Zdravković, Sunčica; Zhang, Meng; Möhr, Christine

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101350

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“…The study was conducted in compliance with the ethical standards described in the Declaration of Helsinki. Parts of the data have been reported previously in relation to different research questions (Jonauskaite, Abdel-Khalek, et al, 2019; Jonauskaite, Parraga, Quiblier, & Mohr, 2020; Jonauskaite, Wicker, et al, 2019).…”

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Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity

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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.

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Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity

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“…For studies in which participants judged color names rather than color patches [15,33,34], it is unclear whether they judged colors they imagined when reading color names, concepts of colors, or some other cognitive representation. However, it seems plausible that participants evaluated category prototypes and, if so, their cognitive representation of the term "yellow" likely had greater lightness than their cognitive representation of "blue."…”

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“…Accounts of color-emotion associations [7,[14][15][16] fall into four main categories: physiological responses (e.g., face flushing when angry), emotional responses (e.g., feeling aggressive when seeing red), language conventions (e.g., "feeling blue"), and experiences of colored objects in the world (e.g., associations between red and blood) [14]. The latter account, that coloremotion associations are based on experiences with color-related objects, is similar to the ecological valence theory of color preferences: i.e., color preferences are determined by preferences for all concepts associated with those colors [10,17].…”

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Blue hues don't bring the blues: questioning conventional notions of color–emotion associations

Schloss¹,

Witzel²,

Lai³

2020

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A

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It is commonly held that yellow is happy and blue is sad, but the reason remains unclear. Part of the problem is that researchers tend to focus on understanding why yellow is happy and blue is sad, but this may be a misleading characterization of color-emotion associations. In this study, we disentangle the contribution of lightness, chroma, and hue in color-happy/sad associations by controlling for lightness and chroma either statistically or colorimetrically. We found that after controlling for lightness and chroma, colors with blue hue were no sadder than colors with yellow hue, and in some cases, colors with blue hue were actually happier. These results can help guide future efforts to understand the nature of color-emotion associations.

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“…Emotionally colored information becomes a priority for cognitive processes: it is absorbed faster, perceived better, and retained in memory longer (see, eg: [63]). Since color is most directly related to emotion (see eg: [52]), it can be a powerful trigger for triggering cognitive responses.…”

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Color in the educational environment for older people: recent research review

Griber¹,

Селиванов²,

Weber³

2020

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The purpose of the article is to present an analysis of the studies existing in domestic and foreign science of the necessary age-related "correction" of the color of the educational environment for older people, carried out in respect of the fact that chromatic communication is not limited exclusively to biological reactions, but its structure, in addition to perceptual one, includes much more significant psychological mechanisms and semiotic levels. The selection of research sources was carried out through the RSCI, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science systems. In total, 63 full texts of articles published between 1999 and 2019 were analyzed. In the process of work, the methods of theoretical and comparative analysis, systematization and generalization of the material were used. The analysis made it possible to distinguish three groups of research. The first group includes works that present the physiological prerequisites for the necessary changes in the chromatic design of the educational space intended for older people. The second group of studies analyzes various aspects of the impact of the color of the educational environment on older people in a psychological connotation. The third group involves the socio-cultural aspects of the formation of the educational environment for older people and analyzes this phenomenon in terms of connection with the lifestyle, way of thinking, physical and emotional-intellectual activity, and social conditions of the aging person. The results of the study convince that color correction in an educational environment designed for older people can cause noticeable changes in the quality of learning at several levels at once – biological (increasing the availability of information and significantly reducing physiological barriers to perception), psychological (supporting and strengthening the processes of memorization and information processing, increasing the psychological comfort of the educational environment), and social (improving the quality of life of older people).

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The sun is no fun without rain: Physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries

Abstract: Hebrew), and Sólveig Þorsteinsdóttir (Icelandic). Finally, we would like to thank all the participants.

Cited by 35 publications

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Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity

Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity

Blue hues don't bring the blues: questioning conventional notions of color–emotion associations

Color in the educational environment for older people: recent research review

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