The psychophysiological component of cultural difference in color naming and illusion susceptibility

Behavior Science Notes • Vol/Iss. 8 • Published In 1973 • Pages: 41-101 •

By Bornstein, Marc H.

Abstract

This article examines the variation in color naming and susceptibility to visual illusions cross-culturally. Results suggest a geographic patterning of color naming and illusion susceptibility which parallels the distribution of eye pigmentation.

Samples
Sample Used	Coded Data	Comment
Ethnographic Reports

Hypotheses (3)
Hypothesis	Supported
"The distribution of color term 'confusions' runs in geographic parallel with increasing skin and eye pigmentation. [This is] typically manifest in [confusing green and blue] or perceiving blue or green and blue as darker or black" (42, 69)	Supported
"More [eye] pigmented peoples will be better judges of line lengths in the Muller-Lyer figure (i.e., be less illusion susceptible) than will less [eye] pigmented peoples" (78)	Supported
"Adults will be better judges of line lengths in the Muller-Lyer figure (i.e., be less illusion susceptible) than will children" (79)	Supported

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The psychophysiological component of cultural difference in color naming and illusion susceptibility

Behavior Science Notes • Vol/Iss. 8 • Published In 1973 • Pages: 41-101 • Cite

By Bornstein, Marc H.

Abstract

Samples

Hypotheses (3)

Behavior Science Notes • Vol/Iss. 8 • Published In 1973 • Pages: 41-101 •