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The Sun Is no Fun without Rain
Gina M. GrimshawVeronica Vargas-sotoThammanard CharernboomEric LaurentSuvi VainioTanjir Rashid SoronMarodégueba Jeannette BarmaAlejandro Salgado MontejoAlejandro Salgado MontejoEliz VolkanDomicele JonauskaiteMari UuskülaVictoria BogushevskayaBodil S.a. KarlssonSergejs FominsNikos KonstantinouRamiro TauJean-philippe AntoniettiKokou A. AtitsogbeAlena GizdicAhmed M. Abdel-khalekEka ChkoniaAbdulrahman S. Al-rasheedSunčica ZdravkovićSunčica ZdravkovićCornelis B. DoorenbosEduardo Fonseca-pedreroPhilip C. MefohAmer ChamseddineAhmad Abu-akelPhillip MutandwaNevena DimitrovaGrażyna WąsowiczTeofil CiobanuAygun SultanovaVioleta CoronaVioleta CoronaMeng ZhangMaya RoinishviliStephen KatembuStephen KatembuJelena HavelkaChristine MohrDaniel BarrattÁRni Gunnar ÁSgeirssonÁRni Gunnar ÁSgeirssonYulia A. GriberJejoong KimGeorgette NgaboloNiloufar PouyanBanu ManavAugusta GasparDaniel OberfeldCorinna M. PerchtoldNele DaelMarjaana LindemanAlicia Pérez-albénizHassan DaoukMaliha Khadidja Bouayed MezianeAleksandra Mroczko-wąsowiczMarco HirnsteinAya Ahmed HasanMarietta Papadatou-pastouLyudmyla RomanyukLyudmyla RomanyukLynn MarquardtAllison Creedsubject
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-ORIENTALEDemographydescription
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, and daytime hours. Consistent with our hypotheses, participants who live further away from the equator and in rainier countries are more likely to associate yellow with joy. We did not find associations with seasonal variations. Our findings support a role for the physical environment in shaping the affective meaning of colour. Peer reviewed
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-01 | Journal of Environmental Psychology |