TY - JOUR
T1 - The sun is no fun without rain
T2 - physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries
AU - Jonauskaite, Domicele
AU - Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed M.
AU - Abu-Akel, Ahmad
AU - Al-Rasheed, Abdulrahman Saud
AU - Antonietti, Jean Philippe
AU - Ásgeirsson, Árni Gunnar
AU - Atitsogbe, Kokou Amenyona
AU - Barma, Marodégueba
AU - Barratt, Daniel
AU - Bogushevskaya, Victoria
AU - Bouayed Meziane, Maliha Khadidja
AU - Chamseddine, Amer
AU - Charernboom, Thammanard
AU - Chkonia, Eka
AU - Ciobanu, Teofil
AU - Corona, Violeta
AU - Creed, Allison
AU - Dael, Nele
AU - Daouk, Hassan
AU - Dimitrova, Nevena
AU - Doorenbos, Cornelis B.
AU - Fomins, Sergejs
AU - Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo
AU - Gaspar, Augusta
AU - Gizdic, Alena
AU - Griber, Yulia A.
AU - Grimshaw, Gina M.
AU - Hasan, Aya Ahmed
AU - Havelka, Jelena
AU - Hirnstein, Marco
AU - Karlsson, Bodil S.A.
AU - Katembu, Stephen
AU - Kim, Jejoong
AU - Konstantinou, Nikos
AU - Laurent, Eric
AU - Lindeman, Marjaana
AU - Manav, Banu
AU - Marquardt, Lynn
AU - Mefoh, Philip
AU - Mroczko-Wąsowicz, Aleksandra
AU - Mutandwa, Phillip
AU - Ngabolo, Georgette
AU - Oberfeld, Daniel
AU - Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta
AU - Perchtold, Corinna M.
AU - Pérez-Albéniz, Alicia
AU - Pouyan, Niloufar
AU - Rashid Soron, Tanjir
AU - Roinishvili, Maya
AU - Romanyuk, Lyudmyla
AU - Salgado Montejo, Alejandro
AU - Sultanova, Aygun
AU - Tau, Ramiro
AU - Uusküla, Mari
AU - Vainio, Suvi
AU - Vargas-Soto, Veronica
AU - Volkan, Eliz
AU - Wąsowicz, Grażyna
AU - Zdravković, Sunčica
AU - Zhang, Meng
AU - Mohr, Christine
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, providing a Doc.CH fellowship grant to DJ (P0LAP1_175055) and a project funding grant to CM & NDa (100014_182138). MH was supported by a research grant from the Bergen Research Foundation (BFS2016REK03). YG was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (17-29-09145). The initiation of this research was possible through the support of AkzoNobel, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Limited, and in particular David Elliott and Tom Curwen, Color R&I team, Slough, UK, and Stephanie Kraneveld, Sassenheim, the Netherlands. We would like to further thank all the people who have contributed to the translation of the survey or to data collection, but have not provided further contributions: Chaman Afrooz Chowdhury (Bengali), Gumru Ahmadova (Azerbaijani), Felipe Andrade (Portuguese), Archil Begiashvili (Georgian), Gildas Bika (Gabon), Oh-Hyeon Choung (Korean), Yishin Chuang (Traditional Chinese), Emilija Emma (Lithuanian), Agnieszka Gawda (Polish), Stephanie Hong (Korean), Aydan Ismayilova (Azerbaijani), Jamila Ismayilova (Azerbaijani), Aurika Jonauskienė (Lithuanian), Vita Kalnberziņa (Latvian), Bruno Kemm (Spanish & Portuguese), Richard Klein (French), Árni Kristjánsson (Icelandic), Gunta Krūmiņa (Latvian), Junghee Lee (Korean), Tiraya Lerthattasilp (Thai), Abraham Lim Ken Zhi (Traditional Chinese), Arnt Lykke Jakobsen (Danish), Sarah Malekolkalami (Persian), Lucian Marin (Romanian), Riina Martinson (Estonian), Marilena Syrimi (Cyprus), Jung Min Shin (Korean), Tanisha Momtaz (Bengali), Galina Paramei (Russian), Mushfiqur Rahman (Bengali), Anchalita Ratanajaruraks (Thai), Angela Rowe (Spanish), Juliet Rowe (Spanish), Haerin Shin (Korean), Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund (Danish), Angeliki Theodoridou (Greek), Evelina Thunell (Swedish), Alessandro Tremea (Italian), Laura Winther Balling (Danish), Ji Won Hur (Korean), Yaffa Yeshurun (Hebrew), and Sólveig þorsteinsdóttir (Icelandic). Finally, we would like to thank all the participants.
Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation , providing a Doc.CH fellowship grant to DJ ( P0LAP1_175055 ) and a project funding grant to CM & NDa ( 100014_182138 ). MH was supported by a research grant from the Bergen Research Foundation ( BFS2016REK03 ). YG was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research ( 17-29-09145 ). The initiation of this research was possible through the support of AkzoNobel , Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Limited, and in particular David Elliott and Tom Curwen, Color R&I team, Slough, UK, and Stephanie Kraneveld, Sassenheim, the Netherlands. We would like to further thank all the people who have contributed to the translation of the survey or to data collection, but have not provided further contributions: Chaman Afrooz Chowdhury (Bengali), Gumru Ahmadova (Azerbaijani), Felipe Andrade (Portuguese), Archil Begiashvili (Georgian), Gildas Bika (Gabon), Oh-Hyeon Choung (Korean), Yishin Chuang (Traditional Chinese), Emilija Emma (Lithuanian), Agnieszka Gawda (Polish), Stephanie Hong (Korean), Aydan Ismayilova (Azerbaijani), Jamila Ismayilova (Azerbaijani), Aurika Jonauskienė (Lithuanian), Vita Kalnberziņa (Latvian), Bruno Kemm (Spanish & Portuguese), Richard Klein (French), Árni Kristjánsson (Icelandic), Gunta Krūmiņa (Latvian), Junghee Lee (Korean), Tiraya Lerthattasilp (Thai), Abraham Lim Ken Zhi (Traditional Chinese), Arnt Lykke Jakobsen (Danish), Sarah Malekolkalami (Persian), Lucian Marin (Romanian), Riina Martinson (Estonian), Marilena Syrimi (Cyprus), Jung Min Shin (Korean), Tanisha Momtaz (Bengali), Galina Paramei (Russian), Mushfiqur Rahman (Bengali), Anchalita Ratanajaruraks (Thai), Angela Rowe (Spanish), Juliet Rowe (Spanish), Haerin Shin (Korean), Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund (Danish), Angeliki Theodoridou (Greek), Evelina Thunell (Swedish), Alessandro Tremea (Italian), Laura Winther Balling (Danish), Ji Won Hur (Korean), Yaffa Yeshurun (Hebrew), and Sólveig þorsteinsdóttir (Icelandic). Finally, we would like to thank all the participants.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Affect
KW - Climate
KW - Colour
KW - Cross-cultural
KW - Emotion
KW - Environment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073610690&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101350
DO - 10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101350
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073610690
VL - 66
JO - Journal of Environmental Psychology
JF - Journal of Environmental Psychology
SN - 0272-4944
M1 - 101350
ER -