The psychology of color is based on the mental and emotional effects colors have on sighted people in all facets of life. There are some very subjective pieces to color psychology as well as some more accepted and proven elements. Keep in mind, that there will also be variations in interpretation, meaning, and perception between different cultures

Psychological Effects of Cool Colors

Need to be creative? Want help getting those brain synapses firing? Try utilizing the color purple. Purple utilizes both red and blue to provide a nice balance between stimulation and serenity that is supposed to encourage creativity. Light purple is said to result in a peaceful surrounding, thus relieving tension. These could be great colors for a home or business office.

Are you looking for a peaceful and calming environment? You might consider using green and/or blue. These cool colors are typically considered restful. There is actually a bit of scientific logic applied to this – because the eye focuses the color green directly on the retina, it is said to be less strain ful on your eye muscles.

The color blue is suggested for high-traffic rooms or rooms that you or other people will spend significant amounts of time. Another cool color, blue is typically a calming and serene color, said to decrease respiration and lower blood pressure. The bedroom is a great place to use these colors as they should help you relax.

Psychological Effects of Warm Colors

Want to create an environment of stimulation or whet people’s appetite? You might consider utilizing the colors yellow or orange. These colors are often associated with food and can cause your tummy to growl a little. Have you ever wondered why so many restaurants use these colors? Now you know why even after people watched the movie Super Size Me, they said they were hungry.

You do want to be careful about using bright colors like orange and especially yellow. They reflect more light and excessively stimulate a person’s eyes which can lead to irritation. You also probably don’t want to paint your dining room or kitchen these colors if you’re a calorie-counter.

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Actually all colors affect me. I am very sensitive to colors and some colors make me feel bad, so bad that I ponder for hours why certain people have such a bad taste.

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There is a branch in the theory of colors known as color psychology. Indeed, colors affect our emotions and desires. It is even used as a therapy for mentally deranged persons. Warm colors emit hotness while cool colors give the sensation of coolness, serenity and calmness. Proper harmonies of colors promote peace and affection when they are adorned as a dress while poor selection of colors, especially for clothes, result in uneasiness from viewers, with some getting emotionally disturbed, even getting angry. Best regards

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I recommend the answer of Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist

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I laughed when I saw this question. I am entirely non-visual, and my wife often teases me by asking what colour our kitchen is (or some other room of the house). I never know.

Of course, in music many composers associated specific keys with specific psychological states. Mozart is the example that comes first to mind. And I would agree that there is a world of difference between the strong, challenging sound of c minor and the bleak, desolate sound of b minor, just half a tone away.

But that's another thread entirely.

In art also there also have been movements associating colour and design with aspects of the spiritual, and by implication with human perception and sensation and sensibility. Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky in the earlier part of the last century are examples. So one thing can often signal another in ways that we wouldn't expect and can't explain.

Ronán,

Check http://www.colorquiz.com/ out and be surprised

Béatrice –

I burst out laughing! Some of it was really funny. Aside from contradictions between one part of the 'report' and another, the only thing that was accurate was that I am, indeed, self-centred. But heck, that's not particularly rare.

I guess colour psychology is in a more rudimentary state than, say, particle physics…

Maybe others could take the 'personality test' you linked and see what they make of it. I'd be really curious.

Ronán,

Not bad to acknowledge that one is self-centered:)

I got some really fun ones too –

• Willing to put aside his own ambitions and goals in order to gain the comfort and security he craves and live a low-key life.
• Conceited and is easily insulted. Holds back emotionally but is able to find satisfaction through sexual activity.
• Is afraid he will be held back from obtaining the things he wants leading him to act out with a hectic intensity.

Who wrote this test anyway – Dostoyevsky? It makes me sound far more interesting than I actually am.

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Would you claim that the statements are not true from the color test?

Some colors raise happy feeling inside me ,whereas others had cool or sad effect on me.

I can state (not claim) that the statements are untrue. A low-key life? Willing to put aside ambitions? I wouldn't be where I am today if I had taken such a route.

No need to take this too seriously, these "results" are no "salvation-issues". I would though consider the level of ambitions to decrease with an increasing age - for natural reasons.

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See this which is interesting and well illustrated re the original question:

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-people-sound-taste-color-creative?utm_medium=email&utm_source=11995862-newsletter-editorial-daily-01-23-18&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=st-A

The colours relate respectively to the body, the mind, the emotions. The psychological properties of the eleven basic colours are as follows:

RED. Physical Positive: Physical courage, strength, warmth, energy, basic survival, 'fight or flight', stimulation, masculinity, excitement. Negative: Defiance, aggression, visual impact, strain.

BLUE. Intellectual. Positive: Intelligence, communication, trust, efficiency, serenity, duty, logic, coolness, reflection, calm. Negative: Coldness, aloofness, lack of emotion, unfriendliness.

YELLOW. Emotional Positive: Optimism, confidence, self-esteem, extraversion, emotional strength, friendliness, creativity. Negative: Irrationality, fear, emotional fragility, depression, anxiety, suicide.

GREEN. Balance Positive: Harmony, balance, refreshment, universal love, rest, restoration, reassurance, environmental awareness, equilibrium, peace. Negative: Boredom, stagnation, blandness, enervation.

VIOLET. Spiritual Positive: Spiritual awareness, containment, vision, luxury, authenticity, truth, quality. Negative: Introversion, decadence, suppression, inferiority.

ORANGE. Positive: Physical comfort, food, warmth, security, sensuality, passion, abundance, fun. Negative: Deprivation, frustration, frivolity, immaturity.

PINK. Positive: Physical tranquillity, nurture, warmth, femininity, love, sexuality, survival of the species. Negative: Inhibition, emotional claustrophobia, emasculation, physical weakness.

GREY. Positive: Psychological neutrality. Negative: Lack of confidence, dampness, depression, hibernation, lack of energy.

BLACK. Positive: Sophistication, glamour, security, emotional safety, efficiency, substance. Negative: Oppression, coldness, menace, heaviness.

WHITE. Positive: Hygiene, sterility, clarity, purity, cleanness, simplicity, sophistication, efficiency. Negative: Sterility, coldness, barriers, unfriendliness, elitism.

BROWN. Positive: Seriousness, warmth, Nature, earthiness, reliability, support. Negative: Lack of humour, heaviness, lack of sophistication.

It depends on the personality , like and your desire.