The effect of background color on emotion recognition from facial expression

Abstract

The present study implemented three experiments to examine the effect of back ground color on emotion recognition from facial expression. The results showed that when subjects observed facial expression sufficiently green facilitated negative judgment for neutral face, whereas when subjects observed facial expression momently green compared with red facilitated positive judgment for neutral face. Furthermore, red enforced anger and yellow enforced happiness, though green did not enforce happiness. Given these results, the possibility that the effects of background color on emotion recognition from facial expression may be varied with the time of presentation of stimuli was suggested. Finally, the association between color and emotion was discussed in terms of the innate association and acquired association.