Table 1. Reliability and correlation between six color emotion ratings.

Reliabilities (correlation coefficient between the first and second ratings) for six emotions were all significant (p < .001). In a correlation between six color emotion ratings, shaded cells indicate that no statistically significance were detected. The others were all significant (p < .01).

Group	Emotion	Reliability	Correlation between six color emotion ratings
			Fresh–stale	Soft–hard	Like–dislike	Cool–warm	Light–heavy
Men	Clean–dirty	0.79	0.97	0.88	0.91	−0.16	0.90
	Fresh–stale	0.72		0.84	0.91	−0.25	0.85
	Soft–hard	0.68			0.70	−0.30	0.96
	Like–dislike	0.64				−0.07	0.74
	Cool–warm	0.75					−0.13
	Light–heavy	0.71
Women	Clean–dirty	0.84	0.96	0.22	0.87	0.08	0.86
	Fresh–stale	0.79		0.07	0.84	0.01	0.77
	Soft–hard	0.63			0.20	−0.28	0.56
	Like–dislike	0.80				0.13	0.71
	Cool–warm	0.78					0.09
	Light–heavy	0.84
Red-green defects	Clean–dirty	0.78	0.96	0.91	0.90	−0.10	0.92
	Fresh–stale	0.69		0.86	0.92	−0.15	0.86
	Soft–hard	0.71			0.75	−0.15	0.95
	Like–dislike	0.75				−0.19	0.81
	Cool–warm	0.75					−0.09
	Light–heavy	0.72