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Philip C. Mefoh

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The Sun Is no Fun without Rain

2019

Across cultures, people associate colours with emotions. Here, we test the hypothesis that one driver of this cross-modal correspondence is the physical environment we live in. We focus on a prime example – the association of yellow with joy, – which conceivably arises because yellow is reminiscent of life-sustaining sunshine and pleasant weather. If so, this association should be especially strong in countries where sunny weather is a rare occurrence. We analysed yellow-joy associations of 6625 participants from 55 countries to investigate how yellow-joy associations varied geographically, climatologically, and seasonally. We assessed the distance to the equator, sunshine, precipitation, a…

Social Psychology515 PsychologyClimateSettore L-LIN/01 - GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICAEquator050109 social psychologyEnvironmentAffect (psychology)Medical and Health Sciences050105 experimental psychologyEmotion Cross-culturalColourcollection0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesApplied PsychologyEmotionbehavior05 social sciencesCross-culturalcolorAffectOther Medical SciencesweatherApplied Psychology; Social PsychologySettore L-OR/21 - LINGUE E LETTERATURE DELLA CINA E DELL'ASIA SUD-ORIENTALEDemographyJournal of Environmental Psychology
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Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries

2021

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodologies, but these were conducted almost exclusively on participants from North America and Europe, resulting in limited generalizability. This project examined the tears-social support intentions effect and possible mediating and moderating variables in a fully pre-registered study across 7007 participants (24,886 ratings) and 41 countries spanning all populated continents. Participants were prese…

Sociology and Political ScienceEmotionsPersonal distressAttachment050109 social psychology:Ciências Sociais::Psicologia [Domínio/Área Científica]Relaciones interpersonalesEmotional tearsSocial support0302 clinical medicineEmotional crying ; Emotional tears ; Attachment ; Cross-cultural ; Social supportPsychologyFaces10. No inequalitymedia_commonInclusionEmociones y sentimientosCrying05 social sciencesImpactFeelingmedicine.symptomPsychologySocial psychologySocial Psychologymedia_common.quotation_subjectEmpathyCryingInterpersonal relationsEquivalence050105 experimental psychologyExposureSocial supportInterpersonal relationship03 medical and health sciencesmedicine0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesValence (psychology)Empathic concernDistressIndividualsAttachment; Cross-cultural; Emotional crying; Emotional tears; Social supportCross-culturalPsicologíaEmotional cryingPsychologieLlantoEmpathyEmpatía030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity

2020

Many of us “see red,” “feel blue,” or “turn green with envy.” Are such color-emotion associations fundamental to our shared cognitive architecture, or are they cultural creations learned through our languages and traditions? To answer these questions, we tested emotional associations of colors in 4,598 participants from 30 nations speaking 22 native languages. Participants associated 20 emotion concepts with 12 color terms. Pattern-similarity analyses revealed universal color-emotion associations (average similarity coefficient r = .88). However, local differences were also apparent. A machine-learning algorithm revealed that nation predicted color-emotion associations above and beyond tho…

cultural relativitylanguagesCultural relativismColor vision515 PsychologyGeneral Psychology; affect; color perception; cross-cultural; universality; cultural relativity; pattern analysis; open data; open materialsEmotionsSettore L-LIN/01 - GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICAGeographic proximityPattern analysisColoropen data050109 social psychologyLinguisticred050105 experimental psychologyMachine LearningJealousycross-culturalcolor perceptionpattern analysisCross-culturalHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesuniversalityGeneral PsychologyLanguageEmotionCommunicationbusiness.industryopen material05 social sciencesLinguisticsCognitive architectureopen materialsColor emotionpattern analysimeaningsaffectAffect (linguistics)PsychologybusinessHuman
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