color harmony

the extent to which colors are pleasing in combination with one another. At least in isolation, complementary colors and colors of the same hue but differing considerably in saturation or lightness are judged to be most harmonious.

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Psychology term of the day

May 10th 2024

object-superiority effect

in visual perception tasks, the finding that judgments about a briefly presented line are made more efficiently when the line is part of a drawing of a three-dimensional object than when it is part of a two-dimensional figure. See configural superiority effect; word-superiority effect.