Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparison

This study aims to determine if there are differences in color–emotion association between monolingual speakers of Spanish and Mandarin, depending on how colors are presented (verbally or visually). We tested two groups of 25 speakers of these two languages in two different tasks using the Geneva Em...

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Autores: Xu, Mingshan, Zhu, Jingtao, Benítez Burraco, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/169250
https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.52
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Palabra clave:color–emotion associations
color patches
color terms
cultural specificity
Geneva Emotion Wheel
universality
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spelling Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparisonXu, MingshanZhu, JingtaoBenítez Burraco, Antoniocolor–emotion associationscolor patchescolor termscultural specificityGeneva Emotion WheeluniversalityThis study aims to determine if there are differences in color–emotion association between monolingual speakers of Spanish and Mandarin, depending on how colors are presented (verbally or visually). We tested two groups of 25 speakers of these two languages in two different tasks using the Geneva EmotionWheel, which encompasses 20 types of emotions. In Task 1, 13 colorswere presented to participants as color terms in their native language,whereas in Task 2 the same colors were presented as color patches fromthe Munsell chart. Participants were then asked to associate color terms or color patches to the set of emotion concepts (and intensities of emotion) in the Geneva EmotionWheel. Overall, differences between languages were not significant, regarding either the type of emotion or individual dimensions of emotion (valence, arousal or power), although significant differences were observed for specific colors. Also, Spanish speakers tended to attribute higher intensity values and higher numbers of emotion values to colors. At the same time, speakers of both languages reacted similarly to color presentation, with color terms being associated with the same emotions as color patches, but eliciting stronger reactions with respect to intensity and the number of emotion values. Finally, we found less variability in color–emotion associations within the Spanish-speaking group. Overall, our study points to a mixed pattern of universality and culture-specificity regarding how colors are used for conveying emotions by people.Cambridge University PressLengua Española, Lingüística y Teoría de la LiteraturaHUM972: Biolingüística2024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/169250https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.52reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésLanguage and Cognition, 16 (4), 2130-2147.https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/719AEDF90141D2A7912F7373E897E537/S1866980824000528a.pdf/color-emotion-associations-by-speakers-of-spanish-and-mandarin-in-verbal-and-visual-tasks-a-comparison.pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/1692502026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparison
title Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparison
spellingShingle Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparison
Xu, Mingshan
color–emotion associations
color patches
color terms
cultural specificity
Geneva Emotion Wheel
universality
title_short Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparison
title_full Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparison
title_fullStr Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparison
title_full_unstemmed Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparison
title_sort Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparison
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Xu, Mingshan
Zhu, Jingtao
Benítez Burraco, Antonio
author Xu, Mingshan
author_facet Xu, Mingshan
Zhu, Jingtao
Benítez Burraco, Antonio
author_role author
author2 Zhu, Jingtao
Benítez Burraco, Antonio
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Lengua Española, Lingüística y Teoría de la Literatura
HUM972: Biolingüística
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv color–emotion associations
color patches
color terms
cultural specificity
Geneva Emotion Wheel
universality
topic color–emotion associations
color patches
color terms
cultural specificity
Geneva Emotion Wheel
universality
description This study aims to determine if there are differences in color–emotion association between monolingual speakers of Spanish and Mandarin, depending on how colors are presented (verbally or visually). We tested two groups of 25 speakers of these two languages in two different tasks using the Geneva EmotionWheel, which encompasses 20 types of emotions. In Task 1, 13 colorswere presented to participants as color terms in their native language,whereas in Task 2 the same colors were presented as color patches fromthe Munsell chart. Participants were then asked to associate color terms or color patches to the set of emotion concepts (and intensities of emotion) in the Geneva EmotionWheel. Overall, differences between languages were not significant, regarding either the type of emotion or individual dimensions of emotion (valence, arousal or power), although significant differences were observed for specific colors. Also, Spanish speakers tended to attribute higher intensity values and higher numbers of emotion values to colors. At the same time, speakers of both languages reacted similarly to color presentation, with color terms being associated with the same emotions as color patches, but eliciting stronger reactions with respect to intensity and the number of emotion values. Finally, we found less variability in color–emotion associations within the Spanish-speaking group. Overall, our study points to a mixed pattern of universality and culture-specificity regarding how colors are used for conveying emotions by people.
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