Journal article
Seeing red as anger or romance: an emotion categorisation task
Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Vol.33(5), pp.581-594
2021
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Abstract
The colour red has heterogeneous connotations that includes associations with both anger and romance. Two experiments were conducted where we contrasted the colour red associated with anger-related words to the colour yellow associated with joy-related words (Experiment 1), and in contrast with the colour pink associated with romance-related words (Experiment 2), using an emotion categorisation task. The analyses were conducted across both participants and items. In Experiment 1, we found clear facilitative effects for categorisation of anger-related words in red font and joy-related words in yellow font. This highlights the robust nature of the red-anger and yellow-joy pairings. In Experiment 2, we similarly found clear facilitative categorisation of anger-related words in red font. However, for romance-related words mixed results were found that illustrate the degree of competition involved in categorising romance-related words in red and pink fonts due to overlapping semantic connotations and colour hue similarity.
Details
- Title
- Seeing red as anger or romance: an emotion categorisation task
- Creators
- Heather Winskel - Southern Cross UniversityDeclan Forrester - Southern Cross UniversityMadelyn Hong - Southern Cross UniversityKourtney O'Connor - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Vol.33(5), pp.581-594
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991012948584102368
- Copyright
- © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Academic Unit
- School of Health and Human Sciences; Human Sciences; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article