Sex Differences in Color Naming
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 47 (2) , 440-442
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1978.47.2.440
Abstract
In an unrestrained-choice color-naming task 26 males and 29 females responded to 21 colored chips from the Farnsworth-Munsell series. The females provided a significantly greater number of different color names for the chips than did the males. The data also showed that the leisure activities of the females were more color-dependent than those of the males. It is suggested that the observed sex differences in color-naming performance are learned differences in the expression of color appreciation.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Naming of Primary Colors by ChildrenChild Development, 1971
- Number and Color Responses of Some College Students: Preliminary Evidence for a “Blue Seven Phenomenon”Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
- The Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue and Dichotomous Tests for Color Vision*Journal of the Optical Society of America, 1943