Color Categories Are Not Arbitrary
By Paul Kay. 2002
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Recent, well-controlled studies in cross-language color naming and cross-language tests of color memory and learning have made important contributions to our understanding of which aspects of cross-language color naming and nonverbal response to colors may and may not be attributed to pan-human properties of color appearance. Valuable as these results are, some studies have led to more relativistic conclusions than their results justify. In particular, these conclusions ignore the issue of whether there exists across languages a statistical tendency toward basing color terminology systems on black, white, and the four Hering opponent hues.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Weird people, yes, but also weird experiments (2010, unknown): “There is some evidence that each of these differences in cultural content may influence some aspects of non‐linguistic cognitive processes (D'Andrade, 1995; Gordon, 2005; Kay, 2005; Levinson, 2003; Roberson, Davies, & Davidoff, 2000).”
- Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010, unknown): “There is some evidence that each of these differences in cultural content may influence some aspects of nonlinguistic cognitive processes (D’Andrade 1995; Gordon 2004; Kay 2005; Levinson 2003; Roberson et al. 2000).”
- Evolutionary models of color categorization based on discrimination (2007, background): “However, more recently Regier, Kay, and Khetarpal (2007) have adopted a different approach:”