Аннотация:Colors have intrinsic affective characteristics. We encounter them in language, art and other aspects of everyday life. This connection extends to color and emotional words. To find out what is behind this connection — the characteristics of words or deeper concepts of color and emotions — we conducted the following experiment using non-verbal stimuli. Subjective differences between basic colors and facial expressions of basic emotions were assessed. We compared the obtained matrix of differences with the data of the previous study and have found a very high correlation. This result supports the assumption that deep underlying concepts of color and emotion lie behind the assessment of the differences. We also analyzed the network characteristics of this matrix.