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Elliot, Andrew J.; Maier, Markus A.; Moller, Arlen C.; Friedman, Ron; Meinhardt, Jorg – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
This research focuses on the relation between color and psychological functioning, specifically, that between red and performance attainment. Red is hypothesized to impair performance on achievement tasks, because red is associated with the danger of failure in achievement contexts and evokes avoidance motivation. Four experiments demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Performance, Achievement, Correlation, Color
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Forster, Jens – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
Nine studies showed a bidirectional link (a) between a global processing style and generation of similarities and (b) between a local processing style and generation of dissimilarities. In Experiments 1-4, participants were primed with global versus local perception styles and then asked to work on an allegedly unrelated generation task. Across…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Correlation, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology