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There is a correspondence between emotions and colors: red is the most "present" color, while cool colors are more contemplative; the electrical component of emotion appears in a certain colored aura.

情绪与颜色有对应：红色是最“当下”的颜色，冷色更具沉思性；情绪电气成分显现在某种颜色光环中。

Concept emotions · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ fundable

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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Supplementary question 3: approximately 600 participants from at least three cultural backgrounds undergo a red/blue/gray background × high/low arousal × positive/negative valence experiment, completed in 3–4 sessions over about 2 months; calibrate luminance and chromaticity, screen for color vision, measure sub-second temporal bisection, second-level duration estimation, sense of time passage, and vividness of the present, with pre-registered direction and sex interactions. If background light is used rather than screen colors, record spectra and control for adaptation and non-visual lighting effects. The aura sub-claim is separately tested with approximately 100 participants using repeated emotion induction, dark-chamber spectral detection, and blinded decoding, controlling for temperature, perspiration, and delayed luminescence.
Suggested paper title
Hue, Emotional Arousal, and Subjective Time: A Preregistered Cross-Cultural Experiment
What it would overturn
If a reproducible emotion-specific body emission spectrum is found, it would revise the model in which human light emission is currently explained primarily by metabolic and oxidative reactions, with no validated emotional color encoding.
Candidate labs / funders
Domicele Jonauskaite，University of Lausanne，Colour Experience Group; Christine Mohr，University of Lausanne; Masaki Kobayashi（人体超弱光子发射）
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Red being the most present provides a color ordering, but it does not define a metric for presence, nor does it imply that red necessarily shortens duration; for the aura to constitute a distinctive prediction, the wavelength and intensity corresponding to each emotion must be pre-specified.
Note
Contested refers to the context-dependent results of the color–time sub-claim; the aura mechanism remains unvalidated; color associations, color-induced emotions, and actual human light emission must be studied separately. [Ongoing color immersion study](https://www.colourexperience.ch/news/2024/9/24/ambizione-domicele-jonauskaite-receives-funding-for-her-new-research-project)
Evidence (3, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim emotions-10, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/emotions-10