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http://dx.doi.org/10.14695/KJSOS.2017.20.4.127

A Study on the Relationship between Color and Cardiovascular Parameters  

Cho, Ayoung (Department of Emotion Engineering, Sangmyung University)
Woo, Jincheol (Department of Emotion Engineering, Sangmyung University)
Lee, Hyunwoo (Department of Emotion Engineering, Sangmyung University)
Jo, Youngho (Emotion Science Center)
Whang, Mincheol (Department of Intelligence Information Engineering, Sangmyung University)
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Science of Emotion and Sensibility / v.20, no.4, 2017 , pp. 127-134 More about this Journal
Abstract
Color is a significant factor for evoking human emotion. Therefore, the effects of color have been analyzed to predict and evaluate human emotion. The purpose of this study was to measure the cardiovascular responses depending on color stimuli in order to observe differences in color-emotions. Images consisting of six colors (red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow) were used as visual stimuli. 26 college or graduate students (13 males) watched the color stimuli on the monitor and scored their subjective emotion while electrocardiogram (ECG) was meausred. The effects of the color on emotion were tested using Kruskal-Wallis test and Mann-Whitney U test. The coherence ratio showed significant differences between green and magenta (p = .004), green and red (p = .006), and green and yellow (p = .004). The significant differences of cardiovascular and emotions were relevant to emotional valence. This study shows significance as an empirical study by indicating that green induces pleasant and red induces unpleasant.
Keywords
Color Emotion; Color; Cardiovascular Response; Color Stimuli;
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