Colour-emotion associations in individuals with red-green colour blindness
Jonauskaite, Domicele (University of Lausanne)
Camenzind, Lucia (University of Lausanne)
Parraga, Carlos Alejandro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Ciències de la Computació)
Diouf, Cécile N. (University of Lausanne)
Mercapide Ducommun, Mathieu (University of Lausanne)
Müller, Lauriane (University of Lausanne)
Norberg, Mélanie (University of Lausanne)
Mohr, Christine (University of Lausanne)

Date:	2021
Abstract:	Colours and emotions are associated in languages and traditions. Some of us may convey sadness by saying feeling blue or by wearing black clothes at funerals. The first example is a conceptual experience of colour and the second example is an immediate perceptual experience of colour. To investigate whether one or the other type of experience more strongly drives colour-emotion associations, we tested 64 congenitally red-green colour-blind men and 66 non-colour-blind men. All participants associated 12 colours, presented as terms or patches, with 20 emotion concepts, and rated intensities of the associated emotions. We found that colour-blind and non-colour-blind men associated similar emotions with colours, irrespective of whether colours were conveyed via terms (r =. 82) or patches (r =. 80). The colour-emotion associations and the emotion intensities were not modulated by participants' severity of colour blindness. Hinting at some additional, although minor, role of actual colour perception, the consistencies in associations for colour terms and patches were higher in non-colour-blind than colour-blind men. Together, these results suggest that colour-emotion associations in adults do not require immediate perceptual colour experiences, as conceptual experiences are sufficient.
Grants:	Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-649 Agencia Estatal de Investigación DPI2017-89867-C2-1-R
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Colour vision deficiency ; Daltonism ; Dichromatic ; Deuteranopia ; Protanopia ; Colour cognition ; Emotion ; Affect ; Cross-modal correspondences ; Chromotherapy
Published in:	PeerJ, Vol. 9 (April 2021) , art. e11180, ISSN 2167-8359

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11180
PMID: 33868822

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