Expression before inference.

ARA explores how people can express a moment without first translating it into a sentence. Color, shape, touch, timing and smell archetype are ways to express context, not instruments that diagnose a person.

The literature below informs our questions. It does not validate ARA's reflection accuracy, prove a universal meaning for colors, or establish clinical benefit.

People's reported experience and an observer's interpretation are not the same thing. ARA gives precedence to what a person explicitly declares. We do not assign a fixed emotional meaning to a pigment.

Proprietary study methods, unpublished manuscripts and private cohort distributions are withheld from the public site. No claim of regulatory exemption or certification is made here.

1. Barrett, Adolphs, Marsella, Martinez & Pollak · 2019

   Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements

   Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 20(1), 1–68

2. Mauss & Robinson · 2009

   Measures of Emotion: A Review

   Cognition and Emotion, 23(2), 209–237

3. Cowen & Keltner · 2017

   Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients

   PNAS, 114(38)

4. Jonauskaitė & Mohr · 2025

   Do we feel colours? A systematic review of 128 years of psychological research linking colours and emotions

   Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32, 1457–1486

5. Zaslavsky, Kemp, Regier & Tishby · 2018

   Efficient compression in color naming and its evolution

   PNAS, 115(31)

6. Kirby, Cornish & Smith · 2008

   Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language

   PNAS, 105(31)

7. Lieberman, Eisenberger, Crockett, Tom, Pfeifer & Way · 2007

   Putting Feelings Into Words: Affect Labeling Disrupts Amygdala Activity in Response to Affective Stimuli

   Psychological Science, 18(5), 421–428

8. Miller, Thebault-Spieker, Chang, Johnson, Terveen & Hecht · 2016

   “Blissfully Happy” or “Ready to Fight”: Varying Interpretations of Emoji

   ICWSM, AAAI

9. European Union · 2024

   Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5 (prohibited practices) and Article 50(3)

   EU Artificial Intelligence Act

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