Abstract
Previous studies found that the abstract concept of power is embodied within space and weight, but there is not a consistent conclusion on the metaphorical relationship between power and colour. The present study adopted three experiments to investigate the metaphorical association between the concept of power and colour perception in Chinese, and how semantic processing and colour perception influence this mapping. Experiment 1 studied the effect of colour perception on the processing of power. The results showed that there was a faster response when high-power words were presented in gold and low-power words were presented in grey. Experiment 2 explored whether priming semantics of power affected colour judgement, and found no significant difference between gold and grey, neither in high-power words nor low-power words. Experiment 3 discovered that participants preferred to connect the golden pseudo words with high-power words and connect the grey pseudo words with low-power words. Overall, the present study substantiated a two-way metaphorical link between colour and power. A metaphorical association is also influenced by the degree of integration of colour into semantics and the depth of semantic processing.
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