2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Test of "Blue Color Effect":What does blue environment affect in cognition, mentality and behavior?
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26590131
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Social psychology
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | blue / color / environment / light / cognition / mentality / behavior |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The present study examined whether the color environment, especially blue, influence human cognitive function, psychological response, or behavior. Experiment 1 tried to replicate the results in cognitive tasks reported in previous studies. Only Letter judgment task and Quiz task showed the better performance in red color condition. Experiment 2 investigated the effect of color on memory tasks using the serial-position learning. However, no significant difference in performance was observed consistently among the color conditions. Experiment 3 employed Stroop task and Kraepelin test. However, the systematic difference in performance was not shown over the conditions. These results raise a question whether the “blue effect” really exists that people often talk about.
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| Free Research Field |
心理学
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