When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: oxygen via Getty Images Is your green my green? Probably not. What appears as pure green ...

In language, we easily link colors and emotions. English speakers see red, feel blue, or are green with envy, meaning they are angry, sad, or envious, respectively. French speakers voient rouge (see ...

Key points People often link colors and emotions in their languages. For example, “seeing red” means that someone is angry. Research shows that people across 30 countries found it easy to link colors ...

These facts might naturally lead you to think that colors are subjective. That, unlike features such as length and temperature, colors are not objective features. Either nothing has a true color, or ...