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 …

The link between colour and emotion and its possible similarity across cultures are
questions that have not been fully resolved. Online, 711 participants from China, Germany …

Emotions are often associated with colors, but what mediates color–emotion associations is
not fully understood. This study examined associations between colors and emotions using …

Do English-speakers think about anger as “red” and sadness as “blue”? Some theories of
emotion suggests that color (s)—like other biologically-derived signals-should be reliably …

People associate affective meaning with colour, and this may influence decisions about
colours. Hue is traditionally considered the most salient descriptor of colour and colour …

For many, colours convey affective meaning. Popular opinion assumes that perception of
colour is crucial to influence emotions. However, scientific studies test colour–emotion …

Across cultures, people associate colours with emotions. Here, we test the hypothesis that
one driver of this cross-modal correspondence is the physical environment we live in. We …

Color has the ability to influence a variety of human behaviors, such as object recognition,
the identification of facial expressions, and the ability to categorize stimuli as positive or …

Experimental evidence demonstrates robust cross-modal matches between music and
colors that are mediated by emotional associations. US and Mexican participants chose …

Popular opinion holds that color has specific affective meaning. Brighter, more chromatic,
and warm colors were conceptually linked to positive stimuli and darker, less chromatic, and …