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Color and Personality Characteristics

 

Pazda, A.D. & Thorstenson, C.A. (2019). High chroma colors increase perceived extraversion and openness for zero-acquaintance judgments. Personality and Individual Differences, 147, 118-127.

Pazda, A.D., & Thorstenson, C.A. (2018). Extraversion predicts a preference for high-chroma colors. Personality and Individual Differences, 127, 133-138.

 
Color and Emotions

 

Thorstenson, C.A., Pazda, A.D., & Lichtenfeld, S. (2020). Facial blushing influences perceived embarrassment and related social functional evaluations. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 413-426.

Thorstenson, C.A., Pazda, A.D., Young, S., & Elliot, A.J. (2019). Face color facilitates the disambiguation of confusing emotion expressions: Toward a social functional account of face color in emotion communication. Emotion, 19, 799-807.

Thorstenson, C.A., Elliot, A.J., Pazda, A.D., Perrett, D.I., & Xiao, D. (2018). Emotion-color associations in the context of the face. Emotion, 18, 1032-1042.

Young, S., Thorstenson, C.A., & Pazda, A.D. (2018). Facial redness, expression, and masculinity influence perceptions of anger and health. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 49-60.

Color in Romantic Contexts

 

Pazda, A.D., & Elliot, A.J. (2017). Processing the word red can influence women’s perceptions of men’s attractiveness. Current Psychology, 36, 316-323.

 

Prokop, P., & Pazda, A.D. (2016). Women's red clothing can increase mate guarding from their male partner. Personality and Individual Differences, 98, 114-117.

Prokop, P., Pazda, A.D., & Elliot, A.J. (2015). Effects of conception risk and sociosexuality on females’ attraction to male red. Personality and Individual Differences, 87, 166-170.

 

Pazda, A.D., Prokop, P., & Elliot, A.J. (2014). Red and romantic rivalry: Viewing another woman in red increases perceptions of sexual receptivity, derogation, and intentions to mate-guard. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1260-1269.

 

Pazda, A.D., Elliot, A.J., & Greitemeyer, T. (2014). Perceived sexual receptivity and fashionableness: Separate paths linking red and black to perceived attractiveness. Color Research and Application, 39, 208-212.

 

Elliot, A.J., Greitemeyer, T., & Pazda, A.D. (2013). Women’s use of red clothing as a sexual signal in intersexual interaction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 599-602.

 

Elliot, A.J., Tracy, J.L., Pazda, A.D., & Beall, A.T. (2013). Red enhances women’s attractiveness to men: First evidence suggesting universality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 165-168.

 

Elliot, A.J., & Pazda, A.D. (2012). Dressed for sex: Red as a female sexual signal in humans. PLoS ONE, 7 (4), e34607.

Pazda, A.D., Elliot, A.J., & Greitemeyer, T. (2012). Sexy red: Perceived sexual receptivity mediates the red-attraction relation in men viewing women.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 787-790.

Color and Social Judgments

 

Thorstenson, C., Pazda, A.D., & Elliot, A. (2020). Human trichromatic versus dichromatic color vision and social perception of facial color. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 51-63.

Thorstenson, C., Pazda, A.D., Young, S., & Slepian, M. (2019). Incidental cues to threat and racial categorization. Social Cognition, 37, 389-404.

Thorstenson, C.A., Pazda, A.D., & Elliot, A.J. (2017). Subjective perception of color differences is greater for faces versus nonfaces. Social Cognition, 35, 299-312.

Thorstenson, C.A., Pazda, A.D., Elliot, A.J., & Perrett, D.I. (2017). Facial redness increases men's perceived healthiness and attractiveness. Perception, 46, 650-664.

Pazda, A.D., Thorstenson, C.A., Elliot, A.J., & Perrett, D. I. (2016). Women's facial redness increases their perceived attractiveness: Mediation through perceived healthiness. Perception, 45, 739-754.

Miscellaneous 

Prokop, P., & Pazda, A. D. (2020). Individual differences in preference for risky behaviors during courtship. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12628

 

Fančovičová, J., Prokop, P., Szikhart, M., & Pazda, A.D. (in press). Snake coloration does not influence children's detection time. Human Dimensions of Wildlife.

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