The Metaphorical Representation of Danger and Safety through Red and Green Colors

已有多项研究表明，颜色表征与心理概念之间存在密切联系。该研究验证了危险与安全概念的红绿颜色隐喻表征，探讨了红绿颜色视觉感知对危险与安全概念认知的影响。研究采用实验法，借鉴概念隐喻领域中经典的词语匹配范式，结果显示，在词汇选择任务中，无希腊语基础的被试更倾向于将红色希腊单词与危险意义联系起来，即在判断危险词时，更可能选择红色希腊文单词作为其释义(t(31) = 5.094, p Several studies have demonstrated a close relationship between color representation and psychological concepts. This study verified the red-green color metaphor representation of danger and safety concepts and explored the impact of red-green color perception on the cognitive processing of these concepts. The research employed an experimental approach, drawing on the classic word-matching paradigm used in the field of conceptual metaphor. The results showed that participants with no background in Greek were more likely to associate red Greek words with the concept of danger, that is, they were more inclined to select red Greek words as the interpretation of danger-related words (t(31) = 5.094, p < 0.001). In contrast, participants tended to link green Greek words with the concept of safety, meaning they were more likely to choose green Greek words as the interpretation of safety-related words (t(31) = 4.059, p < 0.001). This study provides evidence, from the perspective of conceptual metaphor, that the psychological representation of danger-related concepts is consistent with the color red, while the psychological representation of safety-related concepts is consistent with the color green.