What emotions do colours represent?

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Welcome to our poll on colour and emotions.

Colours seem to be associated with emotions, but which emotions, and do people agree? Help us find out!

This is a large-scale study so your opinion is very valuable to us. By offering 5 to 10 minutes of your time you are helping the scientific understanding of the meaning of colour. You can stop the poll at any time.

By doing this poll, you agree that we can use your anonymous responses for our research. Only group data will be analyzed and presented from which no single individuals can be identified.

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The instrument used here is adapted from the Geneva Emotion Wheel (GEW; see Scherer, 2005; Scherer, Fontaine, Sacharin, & Soriano, 2013).
This research project is a collaboration between the University of Lausanne (Christine Mohr, Nele Dael, Domicele Jonauskaite, and Déborah Epicoco), and AkzoNobel NV.
Developed by Amer Chamseddine.
Hosted by the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
With the financial support of AkzoNobel NV, United Kingdom.
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