Perceiving the affective valence of objects influences how we think about and react to the
world around us. Conversely, the speed and quality with which we visually recognize …

Color is a ubiquitous perceptual stimulus, yet relatively little empirical and even less
theoretical work exists on color and psychological functioning. The research that has been …

In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from
everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial …

Psychophysical experiments were conducted in the UK, Taiwan, France, Germany, Spain,
Sweden, Argentina, and Iran to assess colour emotion for two‐colour combinations using …

Ecological valence theory (EVT; Palmer & Schloss, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 107: 8877–8882, 2010) proposes that color preferences are due to affective …

Colour is a critical cue for many vital behavioural tasks: material identification, object
recognition and social–sexual signalling. Given the importance of the behavioural uses of …

Aesthetic preference for the vertical composition of single-object pictures was studied
through a series of two-alternative forced-choice experiments. The results reveal the …

The purpose of this study was to document colour and texture associations to odours using a
variety of odours including both pleasant and unpleasant odours, some of which were likely …

Aesthetic science is intended to be an interdisciplinary enterprise in which people from a
wide variety of fields—including art practice, design, philosophy, psychology, art criticism …

We present a robot augmented with an ambient display that communicates using a multi-
color halo. We use this robot in a public café-style setting where people vote on which colors …