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Colours’ Impact on Morality: Evidence from Event-related Potentials
Black and white have been shown to be representations of moral concepts. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether colours other than black and white have similar effects on words related to morality and to determine the time course of these effects. We presented moral and immoral words i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5177878/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28004749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep38373 |
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description | Black and white have been shown to be representations of moral concepts. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether colours other than black and white have similar effects on words related to morality and to determine the time course of these effects. We presented moral and immoral words in three colours (red, green and blue) in a Moral Stroop task and used the event-related potential (ERP) technique to identify the temporal dynamics of the impact of colours on moral judgement. The behavioural results showed that it took longer for people to judge immoral words than moral words when the words were coloured green than when they were red or blue. The ERP results revealed the time course of these effects. Three stages were identified in the significant effects of P200, N300 and LPC. These findings suggest a metaphorical association between the colour green and moral information. |
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spelling | pubmed-51778782016-12-29 Colours’ Impact on Morality: Evidence from Event-related Potentials Gan, Tian Fang, Wei Ge, Liezhong Sci Rep Article Black and white have been shown to be representations of moral concepts. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether colours other than black and white have similar effects on words related to morality and to determine the time course of these effects. We presented moral and immoral words in three colours (red, green and blue) in a Moral Stroop task and used the event-related potential (ERP) technique to identify the temporal dynamics of the impact of colours on moral judgement. The behavioural results showed that it took longer for people to judge immoral words than moral words when the words were coloured green than when they were red or blue. The ERP results revealed the time course of these effects. Three stages were identified in the significant effects of P200, N300 and LPC. These findings suggest a metaphorical association between the colour green and moral information. Nature Publishing Group 2016-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5177878/ /pubmed/28004749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep38373 Text en Copyright © 2016, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Gan, Tian Fang, Wei Ge, Liezhong Colours’ Impact on Morality: Evidence from Event-related Potentials |
title | Colours’ Impact on Morality: Evidence from Event-related Potentials |
title_full | Colours’ Impact on Morality: Evidence from Event-related Potentials |
title_fullStr | Colours’ Impact on Morality: Evidence from Event-related Potentials |
title_full_unstemmed | Colours’ Impact on Morality: Evidence from Event-related Potentials |
title_short | Colours’ Impact on Morality: Evidence from Event-related Potentials |
title_sort | colours’ impact on morality: evidence from event-related potentials |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5177878/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28004749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep38373 |
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