APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Limited Consistency for Cross-Cultural Color-Emotion Pairings

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Social

  • Courtny Franco
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Jennifer Fugate
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Abstract

Two hundred twenty-eight native speakers of four languages (104 English, 26 French, 48 Spanish, and 50 Portuguese) matched 28 color swatches to 20 different “basic” emotion words. Overall, we found very little consistency and specificity between what colors English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese speakers associate with emotion words.

Emotion

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