SummaryIn “The Colors of Anger, Envy, Fear and Jealousy” (Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 28 No. 2, 1997), Ralph B. Hupka., Z, Zbigniew., Otto, J. and Nadia V. Tarabrina examined color emotions such as anger, envy, fear and jealousy which have more differences than similarities depend on culture. The authors explained those for emotions are divided into mostly five colors; black, red, green, yellow and purple which are affected by phenomena and synesthesia. The author quoted that “the color-emotion associations were not due predominately to hue, but to the degree of saturation and brightness of color” (Osgood, 1960) to define the colors which express emotions are not only five, but also brightness of the colors. Moreover, the authors claimed that there are basic color emotions in general, but in fact, they have many differences in gender, languages and cultures by examined surveys in Germany, Mexico, Poland, Russia and the United States.
Critique
This article was written by four authors about different color emotions. There were some graphs about the result of survey in different culture. However, I wondered they did not do the survey in Asia. If they did it, there were more clear differences of cross-cultural color emotions, and they could persuade the readers. In addition, I thought they did not need to write about languages such as verbs because although people use different languages in the world, colors are common in the world. The connection was ambiguous.
3 comments:
To Haruna
Today haruna plainly stated her summary on a non-fiction book she chose, and supported the authors' theory. She dictated the material understandably, giving impression that she had grasped the meaning of the chapter well.Her preparation was enough to explain what the
autoors said in the book; consequently I think her comprehension was sufficient.
Akinori
ohayo Hachan!!!
hey!!! im so sorry because i was supposed to make comments long time ago, but i couldnt because as you know my cmpter was broken!:'(
Well haruna yoi did a fantastic job explaining the main idea of the chapter of your book!! i think you did a good job understanding the whole chapter and also i agrre with your critique because it would be interesting how people around the wolrd define emotion and colors!!!
by the way i was kind of surprised because i see the color that you named as colors of negatives emotions ( envy, anger,...), as happy colors !!for example i love yellow and green!!!:P
Konnichiwa~Hachan~
I can’t wait to see the results of your research!
Today, in the class, you explained clearly about the author’s idea in this martial. The idea was very interesting because I always think the color could relate to our emotions, and I never think about it also could relate to the country and culture.
I think you comprehended and prepared enough before the presentation.
By the way, I like these lovely pictures in your blog.
Have a nice day!
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