What color is a tree, or the sky, or a sunset? At first glance, the answers seem obvious. But it turns out there is plenty of variation in how people see the world—both between individuals and between ...
Source: Wikimedia Commons / Frederic Edwin Church / 1866. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco How many colors are in the rainbow? Seven said Sir Isaac Newton. Of course, Newton knew that a spectrum is ...
In language, we easily link colors and emotions. English speakers see red, feel blue, or are green with envy, meaning they are angry, sad, or envious, respectively. French speakers voient rouge (see ...