Color categories are not universal: replications and new evidence from a stone-age culture.

By Debi D. Roberson, Ian R. L. Davies, Jules Davidoff. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Color Categories Are Culturally Diverse in Cognition as Well as in Language (2005, background): “In the set of experiments carried out by Roberson et al. (2000), attempted replications of Rosch Heider’s experiments found no evidence for universal basic color categories, and a further set of categorical perception experiments showed positive evidence of the influence of linguistic categories on…”
Meaning and compositionality as statistical induction of categories and constraints (2009, background): “There are many ways in which Rosch (1978) originally pinpointed the basic level as being more salient than other levels: such cues include common attributes, similarity in shapes, and similarity in the motor movements used by someone interacting with them.”
Handbook of the history of social psychology (2012, result): “Much later, Roberson, Davies, and Davidoff (2000) suggested that the results that Heider and Olivier used to refute the codability hypothesis were due to experimental artefacts induced by participants’ guessing strategies.”
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought (2008, neutral): “Experimental evidence has reopened debate about the extent to which language influences nonlinguistic cognition in domains such as space (Levinson, 1996; Li & Gleitman, 2002; Majid, Bowerman, Kita, Haun, & Levinson, 2004), color (Gilbert, Regier, Kay, & Ivry, 2006; Kay & Kempton, 1984; Robertson, D”
Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know? (2005, background): “…examples of potential universals (e.g., comparing color perception across groups that differ in their color terms, Heider & Oliver, 1972; but see Roberson et al., 2000, 2004; comparing facial expressions across cultures with minimal shared cultural history and contact with each other, Ekman,…”
Weird people, yes, but also weird experiments (2010, neutral): “ 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).”
Representation of colour concepts in bilingual cognition: The case of Japanese blues* (2010, background): “…published online 30 September 2010) Previous studies demonstrate that lexical coding of colour influences categorical perception of colour, such that participants are more likely to rate two colours to be more similar if they belong to the same linguistic category (Roberson et al., 2000, 2005).”
Language as a Tool for Interacting Minds (2010, background): “Recently, the latter view has gained more momentum, with studies finding cultures with colour divisions that do not have the ‘natural’ colours as their focal points (Davidoff et al., 1999; Roberson et al., 2000; Roberson et al., 2005; Winawer et al., 2007).”
Cognitive representation of colour in bilinguals: The case of Greek blues* (2009, methodology): “It shows the modal naming data as well as best exemplar placement for ble and ghalazio by advanced- and intermediate-level bilinguals, alongside naming data and focus placement for blue in English native speakers reported in the studies by Roberson et al. (2000, 2005).”
New Perspectives on Language and Thought (2012, background): “Roberson and colleagues adopt this very view (e.g., Roberson, 2005; Roberson et al., 2000; Roberson et al., 2005), reporting, for example, that Berinmo speakers (members of another relatively isolated Papua New Guinea tribe) were better at recognizing and remembering best examples of their own lingu”
New evidence for infant colour categories (2004, neutral): “inconsistent with the absence of such effects in adult speakers of languages that do not mark the distinction (Davies, Sowden, Jerrett, Jerrett, & Corbett, 1998; Kay & Kempton, 1984; Roberson et al., 2000).”