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. 2020 Feb 2;11(1):2041669520902484. doi: 10.1177/2041669520902484

Table 3.

The Number of Emotion Concepts (Broadness) Associated With Colour Terms and Colour Patches Together and Separately.

Colour Colour (term and patch)
Colour term
Colour patch
t Value Cohen’s d
M 95% CI Range M 95% CI Range M 95% CI Range
Red 4.70 [3.98, 5.43] 0–20 5.00 [4.02, 5.98] 1–20 4.28 [3.18, 5.37] 0–17 0.98 0.17
Orange 3.45 [2.86, 4.03] 0–20 3.59 [2.72, 4.46] 0–20 3.24 [2.54, 3.94] 0–9 0.62 0.11
Yellow 3.96 [3.32, 4.61] 0–20 3.97 [3.09, 4.86] 0–20 3.94 [2.99, 4.90] 0–16 0.05 0.01
Green 3.64 [3.01, 4.27] 0–20 3.92 [2.99, 4.86] 0–20 3.24 [2.47, 4.01] 0–11 1.13 0.19
Turquoise 3.48 [2.87, 4.1] 0–20 3.47 [2.60, 4.35] 0–20 3.50 [2.67, 4.33] 0–11 −0.04 0.01
Blue 3.95 [3.33, 4.58] 0–20 4.17 [3.24, 5.10] 0–20 3.65 [2.89, 4.41] 1–11 0.86 0.15
Purple 3.26 [2.65, 3.87] 0–20 3.56 [2.64, 4.48] 0–20 2.81 [2.12, 3.51] 0–10 1.30 0.22
Pink 4.23 [3.6, 4.85] 0–20 4.42 [3.54, 5.30] 0–20 3.94 [3.06, 4.83] 1–12 0.77 0.13
Brown 2.53 [1.9, 3.16] 0–20 2.50 [1.58, 3.42] 0–20 2.57 [1.76, 3.39] 0–14 −0.12 0.02
White 3.01 [2.4, 3.61] 0–20 3.45 [2.52, 4.37] 0–20 2.37 [1.73, 3.01] 0–12 1.91 0.32
Grey 3.70 [3.1, 4.31] 0–20 4.13 [3.22, 5.03] 0–20 3.09 [2.39, 3.80] 0–13 1.80 0.31
Black 4.51 [3.87, 5.14] 0–20 5.56 [4.64, 6.49] 0–20 2.98 [2.34, 3.63] 0–10 4.59*** 0.77
Overall 3.70 [3.52, 3.88] 0–20 3.98 [3.72, 4.24] 0–20 3.30 [3.07, 3.53] 0–17 1.04 0.19

Note. All p values are FDR corrected. CI = confidence interval.

***pFDR < .001.