This test will show you some of your synesthetic connections between emotion and color. This sort of connection is not synesthesia in the normal sense, as I am assumming that most of you will not see auras surrounding the various mood faces. However, current theory of synesthesia is that we all have synesthetic mappings, only we usually keep them quiet. It is my belief that the color/emotion link is common enough and strong enough that even for "non-synesthetes", you'll find that appropriate color to emotion matches are easier to pick out than inappropriate ones.
The test itself takes about a minute for a short test and about five minutes for a long test. What you'll be doing is matching the words "happy", "sad", "angry" and "frightened" to smiley faces showing those moods. The word flashes pretty quick, so make sure you stay focused on the screen during the test. You'll respond using the arrow keys, pressing either up, down, left or right. If you make a mistake, the test pauses until you click 'Ok' or press 'Enter'. I recommend hitting enter rather than reaching for the mouse. Try to go through the test as quickly as you can. If you don't make a few mistakes, you're not going fast enough. The first few are a warm-up, letting you get a hang of seeing the word and finding the face before color is introduced.
Your results will show your average response time for each color/emotion pairing as well as your percentage correct. You can generally eye-ball these numbers and see what color was the best match. However, statistically your numbers may or may not mean anything. If this were really done properly I'd calculate the standard deviations and present that as well. We'd also need to adjust for things like brightness: maybe you respond fastest to yellow for all faces because on your monitor yellow is just easiest to see! If you want to adjust the colors, just use the form below. Any color name (or hex code) can be used so long as the browser can handle it.
