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.

摘要

红色具有多种含义，包括与愤怒和浪漫的联系。进行了两个实验，我们将与愤怒相关的词相关的红色与与欢乐相关的词相关的黄色（实验 1）进行对比，并与与浪漫相关的词相关的粉红色（实验 2）进行对比，使用情绪分类任务。分析是针对参与者和项目进行的。在实验1中，我们发现红色字体中愤怒相关词和黄色字体中快乐相关词的分类有明显的促进作用。这突出了红色-愤怒和黄色-快乐配对的稳健性。在实验 2 中，我们同样发现了红色字体中与愤怒相关的词的明确促进分类。然而，