{"id":4971,"date":"2014-02-03T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:37:07","slug":"jim-davies-blog-entry-shape-color-associations-chosen-essential-read-psychology-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2014\/jim-davies-blog-entry-shape-color-associations-chosen-essential-read-psychology-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Davies blog entry on shape-color associations: chosen as an essential read on Psychology Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Jim Davies blog entry on shape-color associations: chosen as an essential read on Psychology Today\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wassily Kandinsky found that certain shapes, such as triangles and circles, were more often associated with particular colors. But the subsequent research has had trouble replicating these findings. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-science-imagination\/201401\/whats-the-best-color-triangle\">this Psychology Today blog entry<\/a>, chosen as an &#8220;essential read,&#8221; Carleton University associate professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/people\/davies-jim\/\">Jim Davies<\/a> describes the different findings, including poll results done in his own class, Mysteries of the Mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-science-imagination\/201401\/whats-the-best-color-triangle\">&nbsp;http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-science-imagination\/201401\/whats-the-best-color-triangle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wassily Kandinsky found that certain shapes, such as triangles and circles, were more often associated with particular colors. But the subsequent research has had trouble replicating these findings. In this Psychology Today blog entry, chosen as an &#8220;essential read,&#8221; Carleton University associate professor Jim Davies describes the different findings, including poll results done in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4973,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions\/4973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}