How do colors influence how we feel? There are several studies that investigate how colors alter our moods. My goal for this research project is to take the ideas and findings from these studies and present them in a way easily understood. I understand that this subject may not speak to all and that these statements are mainly a matter of perception. I hope you enjoy!
I am sure most people have heard the expressions; seeing red, feeling blue, and green with envy. These are all good examples of our emotional colors. Colors are just one more way to label how we feel. So what makes us feel the way we do? For each person and each day-to-day event, there is going to be different emotions. Maybe the weather speaks to your emotional side. Dark gloomy days may make you feel tired or reclusive. What makes us feel this way? There are some individuals out there that believe it may have something to do with the dark grey color filling the sky. Whereas the rainy skies may bring us down, a bright sunny day has the power to turn that frown upside down.
There are so many different emotions you can feel, going from one extreme to the other. On one hand you have your positive group of feelings. Intelligence, calm, ambitious, refreshed, optimistic, secure, and strength are all words someone could use to describe how they feel while in a positive state of mind. On the other hand someone who is dealing with a more negative situation may use words such as inferior, cold, bored, fearful, deprived, or defiant.
When it comes to labeling certain feelings with colors there are a few differences in studies but it seems that there are many more common occurrences.
Starting with the color red, this is probably the most complicated colors to understand...
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... dry sense of humor and resist any sort of change.
Next we have type three, Fire-light. Echoing the natural patterns of autumn. They are like type one and eternally motivated. Seen as very strong and intense, bossy, and tedious, their goal, in a sense, is to save the world.
Type four is Star-light. Echoing the natural patterns of winter. This type automatically command respect and can be seen as unfriendly and materialistic. They are internally motivated and have the gift of delegation. This type of person is very goal driven and are not detoured easily.
As I have said before, we experience so many different emotions. We all address and react to them in different ways. I feel if we was more aware of our personality types and the different factors that influence our emotions, maybe we could learn to cope with our issues and celebrate our wins in a much healthier way.
Personality predispositions can determine levels of extraversion, which determine the levels to which one seeks social support, thus determining positive affect. Similarly, personality predispositions can determine levels of neuroticism that may influence one’s style of coping in the face of both positive and negative external factors which can determine negative affect (Diener, 1996). Happiness, a core aspect of positive subjective wellbeing, involves maintaining a superior level of positive affect in comparison to negative effect, based on specific positive or negative emotions linked to the recent experiences in one’s life (Emmons & Diener, 1985). Positive emotions such as joy and pride must trump negative emotions such as frustration and sadness in the recent past or present in order for an individual to feel happy. Life satisfaction builds on this and is a cognitive valuation of the quality of an individual’s experiences as a sum throughout their entire life (Emmons & Diener, 1985). Individual personality traits have been found to influence the different patterns and levels of life satisfaction, positive and negative affects and simply general, overall happiness (McCrae, 1983).
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Color seems like a unique topic that researchers have been examining for quite some time. Various people have claimed that how we perceive color is the same universally and cross-culturally. We essentially see what is visible to our human eyes through a very small chunk of what is known as the electromagnetic spectrum. Although people with normal sight perceive this visible section of colors the same way, there is more contemporary research which points out that the way we categorize and think about color is more complex then it is made out to be. In this paper, I aim to discuss how there is support regarding how different cultures and languages do affect the way we understand and think about color. However, I believe there is much more close studying and research needed in the future to make more exceptional claims involving color perception to conclude that it is either solely universal or reliably dependent on one’s culture and language.
The second type is the know-it-all; he is identified by his commonplace appearance, moderately developed social skills, and commanding attitude.
Allie Brosh is an artist who created “Depression part II” in one of her blogs, “hyperbole and a half.” The drawings are done with such little effort but give an explanation of Allie’s life leading up to her depression. The drawings as a child depict a happier time. Her imagination as a child didn 't have limits, everything was possible and no dream was to far for her to reach. One doesn 't get a warning sign of when you 'll hit an all time low. Brosh’s drawing shows a storyline of how her depression affected her. She describes her depression through drawings of her everyday life, and a heavy use very bold colors to express the darkness or bright side of the situation she’s faced. When Allie Brosh comes
When it comes to art, first thing that comes to our mind is the beauty of it; the realism, the story, the scale, or even sometimes the frame work. But what really brings all of these elements is one simple word, hue (color), with which you are able to play around with in order of changing the story and the drama of the art piece. Everybody is able to paint or draw, but the main key is how to play around with the colors in order to grab the attention of the audience.
There are multiple feelings, moods, and senses that people use every day. Two of the primary feelings used is
In “Paradise Glossed,” from Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard, discusses how happiness is not simply quantified or measured, but rather, results from how people interpret the numerous events that make up their lives. His main claim is that each event could be seen from a myriad of different angles, and thus could end in varying degrees of happiness for each person. Gilbert also explains how people often lean more toward the optimistic side of things: upon experiencing an event, people tend to find the positives in the situation. Gilbert’s argument is reasonable, clear, and backed by evidence. But in spite of this, he fails to clearly define happiness, and his logic is somewhat flawed.
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the point where if someone is not happy 100 percent of the time, they are told to seek immediate help. But what is the point of having thousands of other emotionssadness, anger, and fearif a person is only supposed to feel one? Positive psychologists believe that instead of being sad or having neutral feelings, individuals should be happy. From another point of view, Susan David, author of “Don’t Worry Be Gloomy,” and Sharon Begley, author of “Happiness: Enough Already,” both agree that having “negative” emotions is not as defective as people portray them to be. Experiencing other emotions is just as important in life as happiness , and should not be shunned, because these emotions contribute to thinking clearly, encouraging perseverance, and, in the end, making people unintentionally happy.
Emotion is something that people cannot see and touch, but it accompanies people every day. People are quite familiar with it and they use it, enjoy it and control it. However, there will still be some people who wonder what emotion is. According to Dictionary.com, emotion is defined as “an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness” (emotion). As part of emotion, positive emotion is an essential factor in people’s lives. Positive emotions have the antecedent, a role of signaling happiness, and a function to approaching actions that are going to be stated.
of personality. Those types were extrovert and introvert. However, I can relate to my style of
Imagine yourself in an art museum. You wander slowly from cold room to cold room, analyzing colored canvases on stark white walls. When you reach a particular work, do you prefer to stand back and take everything in at once? Or do you move so close to the painting that the individual brushstrokes become apparent? Several different sensory processes occur in your brain during this trip to the art museum; the majority of them involve visual inputs. How does your brain put together all the information that your eyes receive? This raises questions ranging from depth of field to color. The ideas of color perception and color theory are interesting ones. How do humans account for color and does it truly exist? I think that by examining not only the neurological on-goings in the brain, but by learning about color through philosophy, and even art, a greater understanding of it can be reached.
The research has shown that there is direct correlation between color and personality. In planning the next painting of ones house they should take this data into account.
It has been justify by the researchers that music has a big impact on our emotions or mood. It is because of the rhythm and tone that we hear when we listen to music. When we listen to a rhythm, our heart beats actually begins to flow or synch with it. Tones are also highly significant, when you hear a pleasing tone and it is easy to remember you can do it actually. Music composed in a major key and usually sounds happier, joyful, lively etc. and music is also composed in a minor key normally sounds sadder, alone in darkness etc. Music may cause you to feel a lot of expression. and sometimes you can feel more than one emotion during a song. As the researcher sigth, music not only affects what kind of emotions we may be in, but we also seem to have a habit of choosing music based on the emotion we are already feeling.