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Effects of color on emotions.
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“Moreover, bright and saturated colors are more stimulating and pleasurable than grayscales (e.g., Guilford & Smith, 1959; Valdez & Mehrabian, 1994; Wright & Rainwater, 1962).”
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“Also in light of these issues, we have refrained from reviewing the details of this literature herein, referring the reader instead to reviews by Whitfield & Wiltshire (1990), Valdez & Mehrabian (1994), and Elliot & Maier (2012).”
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“Hence in addition to the mean and standard deviation of the Saturation and Brightness channels, the direct relationships to pleasure, arousal and dominance are computed according to the formulae determined by Valdez and Mehrabian from their psychological experiments [ 26 ].”
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Labrecque, L. I., & Milne, G. R. (2011) · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science · doi:10.1007/s11747-010-0245-y · Cited by 740
“Many studies link both value and saturation to arousal, indicating that saturation has a positive effect on arousal (Valdez and Mehrabian 1994) and value has a negative relationship with arousal (Gorn et al. 1997; Valdez and Mehrabian 1994).”
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- Authors
- Valdez, P., & Mehrabian, A.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Published
- 1994
- Volume
- 123
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 394-409
- ISSN
- 0096-3445 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2222
- OpenAlex
- W4319308497
- Cited by
- 1,104
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Psychology General (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Color perception and design
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Color Science and Applications
- Keywords
- color, emotions, color psychology
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