Personality variables and response to color.

Theorists have proposed relationships between response to color and personality attributes, mainly those of impulsivity, suggestibility, and emotionality. A review of research results reveals no support for its association with impulsivity, or related variables (assaultiveness, ego control, etc.). Support is also lacking for its correlation to suggestibility in terms of being easily influenced by individuals, though there is demonstration of its relationship in terms of responding to stimulation from the impersonal environment, color being a part of this environment. Strong evidence from Rorschach studies for reduced use of color by depressed individuals, the only relationship to emotionality established, is compatible with the above positive finding for the depressed patient is uninterested in the external environment. (77 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Significance levels of individual correlations selected from multivariate studies.

Reply to criticisms of author's report to Steisel's (1952) work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Personality correlates of picture preferences.

Preference for certain structural dimensions of pictures (color, degree of abstract representation, human-non-human content) was related to personality factors (as measured by 3 inventories). Ss were VA psychiatric patients and college students. Of the 189 intercorrelations of variables for the 224 Ss, 22 were statistically significant; these are presented and discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)