@Article{DomiceleJonauskaite2021, author="Domicele Jonauskaite and Lucia Camenzind and C. Alejandro Parraga and Cecile N Diouf and Mathieu Mercapide Ducommun and Lauriane M{\"u}ller and Melanie Norberg and Christine Mohr", title="Colour-emotion associations in individuals with red-green colour blindness", journal="PeerJ", year="2021", volume="9", pages="e11180", optkeywords="Affect", optkeywords="Chromotherapy", optkeywords="Colour cognition", optkeywords="Colour vision deficiency", optkeywords="Cross-modal correspondences", optkeywords="Daltonism", optkeywords="Deuteranopia", optkeywords="Dichromatic", optkeywords="Emotion", optkeywords="Protanopia.", 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{\textquoteright} 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.", optnote="CIC; LAMP; 600.120; 600.128", optnote="exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=3564), last updated on Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:49:57 +0200", doi="10.7717/peerj.11180", opturl="https://peerj.com/articles/11180/" }