Number and Color Preferences in Four Countries
- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 63 (2) , 945-946
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1986.63.2.945
Abstract
When asked to write down the name of their favorite color and number (between 0 and 9), 353 boys and 308 girls from Niger tend to write 9 and red; the majority of 121 Japanese boys and 112 girls think first of all 7 and blue; Transkeian children (95 boys and 126 girls) prefer generally 8 and black; 126 boys and 155 girls from Brazzaville tend to choose 9 and red. These heterogeneous results indicate once more that number and color preferences are related to cultural context.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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