New article researching colour blindness

The world as seen by someone with red-green colour blindness (bottom image).

In our most recent article, published at PeerJ Life and Environment, we investigated colour-emotion associations in men with and without red-green colour blindness (a.k.a. daltonism). Our results revealed striking similarities between the two groups. Moreover, similarities were equally high when participants associated colour terms or colour patches with emotion concepts.

This study provides an important piece of evidence and suggests that colour-emotion associations in adults do not require immediate perceptual colour experiences. In other words, it’s enough to think about a colour to know what emotional connotations it carries.

Read the full article here.