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

Table 4.

Descriptive Values of the Intensity of the Associated Emotion Concepts With Colour Terms and Colour Patches Together and Separately.

Colour Colour (term and patch)
Colour term
Colour patch
N t value Cohen’s d
M 95% CI Range M 95% CI Range M 95% CI Range
Red 3.86 [3.70, 4.01] 1.9–5.0 3.99 [3.82, 4.17] 1.9–5.0 3.65 [3.38, 3.93] 1.0–5.0 130 2.16 0.39
Orange 3.32 [3.15, 3.49] 1.0–5.0 3.36 [3.16, 3.57] 1.0–5.0 3.25 [2.95, 3.56] 1.0–5.0 120 0.62 0.11
Yellow 3.55 [3.39, 3.70] 1.0–5.0 3.55 [3.34, 3.76] 1.0–5.0 3.54 [3.30, 3.79] 1.0–5.0 129 0.04 0.01
Green 3.24 [3.07, 3.41] 1.0–5.0 3.38 [3.20, 3.56] 1.0–5.0 3.05 [2.72, 3.38] 1.0–5.0 124 1.90 0.35
Turquoise 3.51 [3.32, 3.71] 1.0–5.0 3.66 [3.42, 3.90] 1.0–5.0 3.31 [2.99, 3.63] 1.0–5.0 118 1.80 0.34
Blue 3.44 [3.29, 3.59] 1.0–5.0 3.49 [3.28, 3.70] 1.0–5.0 3.37 [3.15, 3.60] 1.3–5.0 128 0.74 0.13
Purple 3.21 [3.02, 3.40] 1.0–5.0 3.32 [3.09, 3.55] 1.0–5.0 3.07 [2.75, 3.40] 1.0–5.0 118 1.26 0.23
Pink 3.56 [3.39, 3.74] 1.0–5.0 3.72 [3.50, 3.95] 1.0–5.0 3.34 [3.06, 3.62] 1.0–5.0 129 2.13 0.38
Brown 3.34 [3.14, 3.53] 2.0–5.0 3.33 [3.10, 3.57] 2.0–5.0 3.34 [3.01, 3.68] 1.0–5.0 108 −0.07 −0.01
White 3.56 [3.36, 3.76] 1.7–5.0 3.69 [3.46, 3.92] 1.7–5.0 3.37 [3.01, 3.73] 1.0–5.0 116 1.56 0.30
Grey 3.55 [3.37, 3.72] 1.8–5.0 3.61 [3.38, 3.84] 1.8–5.0 3.45 [3.17, 3.74] 1.0–5.0 128 0.85 0.15
Black 3.62 [3.45, 3.79] 1.8–5.0 3.86 [3.67, 4.04] 1.8–5.0 3.26 [2.95, 3.57] 1.0–5.0 127 3.55** 0.64
Overall 3.49 [3.37, 3.61] 1.8–5.0 3.61 [3.46, 3.75] 1.8–5.0 3.33 [3.12, 3.53] 1.7–4.8 132 2.32* 0.41

Note. Significant differences, after the FDR correction, in emotion intensity between colour presentation modes are flagged as *pFDR < .050 and **pFDR < .010. CI = confidence interval.