Mylonas, Dimitris and Paramei, Galina V. and MacDonald, Lindsay (2014) Gender differences in colour naming. In: Colour Studies: A Broad Spectrum. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 225-239. ISBN 9789027212191
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Abstract
Gender differences in colour naming were explored using a web-based experiment in English. Each participant named twenty colours selected from 600 Munsell samples, presented one at a time against a neutral background. Colour names and typing onset response times were registered. For the eleven basic colour terms, elicitation frequency was comparable for both genders. Females demonstrated more elaborated colour vocabulary, with more descriptors in general and more non-basic monolexemic terms; they also named colours faster than males. The two genders differ in the repertoire of frequent colour terms: a Bayesian synthetic observer revealed that women segment colour space linguistically more densely in the “warm” area whereas men do so in the “cool” area. Current “nurture” and “nature” explanations of why females excel in colour naming behaviour are considered.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This item is under copyright and the publisher, John Benjamins, should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form. |
| Keywords: | colour naming; English; Munsell; gender differences; web-based experiment; Bayesian synthetic observer |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Galina Paramei |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2016 08:28 |
| Last Modified: | 11 May 2016 10:28 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/1229 |
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