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  2. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    Because color exhibits both biological and linguistic aspects, it has become a focus of the study of the relationship between language and thought. [3] In a 2006 review of the debate Paul Kay and Terry Regier concluded that "There are universal constraints on color naming, but at the same time, differences in color naming across languages cause ...

  3. Color psychology - Wikipedia

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    Color psychology is the study of colors and hues as a determinant of human behavior. Color influences perceptions that are not obvious, such as the taste of food. Colors have qualities that may cause certain emotions in people. [1] How color influences individuals may differ depending on age, gender, and culture. [2]

  4. Color vision - Wikipedia

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    Thus human color perception is determined by a specific, non-unique linear mapping from the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space H color to the 3-dimensional Euclidean space R 3 color. Technically, the image of the (mathematical) cone over the simplex whose vertices are the spectral colors, by this linear mapping, is also a (mathematical) cone in ...

  5. Stroop effect - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1 from Experiment 2 of the original description of the Stroop Effect (1935). 1 is the time that it takes to name the color of the dots while 2 is the time that it takes to say the color when there is a conflict with the written word.

  6. True Colors (personality) - Wikipedia

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    True Colors is a personality profiling system created by Don Lowry in 1978. [1] It was originally created to categorize at risk youth [2] into four basic learning styles using the colors blue, orange, gold and green to identify the strengths and challenges of these core personality types. [3]

  7. Unique hues - Wikipedia

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    Unique hue is a term used in perceptual psychology of color vision and generally applied to the purest hues of blue, green, yellow and red. The proponents of the opponent process theory believe that these hues cannot be described as a mixture of other hues, and are therefore pure, whereas all other hues are composite. [ 1 ]

  8. Basic Color Terms - Wikipedia

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    Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969; ISBN 1-57586-162-3) is a book by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay. Berlin and Kay's work proposed that the basic color terms in a culture, such as black, brown, or red, are predictable by the number of color terms the culture has. All cultures have terms for black/dark and white/bright.

  9. Theory of constructed emotion - Wikipedia

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    The theory of constructed emotion (formerly the conceptual act model of emotion [1]) is a theory in affective science proposed by Lisa Feldman Barrett to explain the experience and perception of emotion. [2] [3] The theory posits that instances of emotion are constructed predictively by the brain in the moment as needed.