作者
Domicele Jonauskaite, Déborah Epicoco, Abdulrahman S Al‐rasheed, John Jamir Benzon R Aruta, Victoria Bogushevskaya, Sanne G Brederoo, Violeta Corona, Sergejs Fomins, Alena Gizdic, Yulia A Griber, Jelena Havelka, Marco Hirnstein, George John, Daniela S Jopp, Bodil Karlsson, Nikos Konstantinou, Éric Laurent, Lynn Marquardt, Philip C Mefoh, Daniel Oberfeld, Marietta Papadatou‐Pastou, Corinna M Perchtold‐Stefan, Giulia FM Spagnulo, Aygun Sultanova, Takumi Tanaka, Ma Criselda Tengco‐Pacquing, Mari Uusküla, Grażyna Wąsowicz, Christine Mohr
发表日期
2024/5
期刊
British Journal of Psychology
卷号
115
期号
2
页码范围
275-305
简介
As people age, they tend to spend more time indoors, and the colours in their surroundings may significantly impact their mood and overall well‐being. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to provide informed guidance on colour choices, irrespective of age group. To work towards informed choices, we investigated whether the associations between colours and emotions observed in younger individuals also apply to older adults. We recruited 7393 participants, aged between 16 and 88 years and coming from 31 countries. Each participant associated 12 colour terms with 20 emotion concepts and rated the intensity of each associated emotion. Different age groups exhibited highly similar patterns of colour–emotion associations (average similarity coefficient of .97), with subtle yet meaningful age‐related differences. Adolescents associated the greatest number but the least positively biased emotions with …
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