The power of red : The influence of colour on evaluation and failure – A replication

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00110267" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00110267 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691819300873" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691819300873</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102873" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102873</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The power of red : The influence of colour on evaluation and failure – A replication

Original language description

This replication of a study by &gt;Rutchick, Slepian, and Ferris (2010) examines the influence of the colour of a pen on the activation of associations with failure and the focus on errors. We assigned two tasks to 198 students who completed them using either a red or a blue pen. The students were instructed to complete several word stems in the first task. In the second, we asked them to mark mistakes in a text. The participants using red pens completed significantly more word stems with words associated with failure than those using blue pens. The participants using red pens also marked significantly more mistakes in a text than those using blue pens. Our results support the findings of the original study and the hypothesized influence of the colour red in inducing a higher activation of associations with failure and a heightened focus on mistakes. Our study further contributes to research in this area in that it takes into account the participants' field of study and creates an explicit achievement context in which the observed phenomenon is most prevalent.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Psychologica

ISSN

0001-6918

e-ISSN

1873-6297

Volume of the periodical

198

Issue of the periodical within the volume

July

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

1-5

UT code for WoS article

000483659800016

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85067691812