Does colour affect your mood?

How does colour affect your mood?

Red, orange and yellow are next to each other on the wheel and are all warm colours. Warm colours often evoke feelings of happiness, optimism and energy. However, yellow and orange can also slightly irritate the eyes and red can increase a person's appetite.

https://feltmagnet.com/drawing/The-P...Human-Behavior

 

I really like deep purple, thinking back to my A Level psychology days purple is supposed to represent quality, so maybe that's why I like it!

 

It makes me think of Royalty that colour.

 

I think alot of the ways color affects my mood are subconscious. In the US, we're conditioned to pair traffic light colors with meaning since 16 and I think advertising does this as well, for instance as mentioned in the op, food signs utilizing colors to increase appetite and stuff.

But I'm having difficulty discerning whether it's color affecting my mood or the conditioned paired stimuli / abstracted meaning.

I saw an interesting thing recently on image compression where there was a photo of a cat in a hat and then they did a few different compressions to the image, removing alot of the colors from the original and I must say, after a few seconds my eyes re-adjusted and there wasn't a significant difference to the original.

 

I am fascinated by that.
I was going to post some more scientific experiments, but, wasn't sure how they would go on this forum. I am still dipping my toe in the water, so to speak.
I guess you have mood lighting the same as us?

 

I like green. And snowy peaceful White it's pretty cool too. I don't care too much for black and gold if you know what I mean.

 

I am wearing green today, I have green eyes, no significance, just thought I would say. lol

 

There is a four volume set on color psychology which, among other things, describes one slightly off shade of pink that every prison in the country paints their holding cell for violent cases. It cuts their strength in half in five minutes so they can go in and handle them easier.

 

Links would be helpful. please.

 

Interesting question. Perhaps without realizing it may effect my mood. And perhaps without realizing i may select colors that reflect my mood or persona. Red and orange are two colors i happen to select most without thinking. And orange isn't necessarily one of my favorite colors when i think about it. A look at my closet and i see much red and orange.

 

I am mostly drawn to anything red.
It is my favourite colour.

 

there's a certain color of green, that makes me feel absolutely wonderful. new growth on the tips of leaves in the springtime comes pretty close to it.
its a very yellowish olive, sometimes called avacado, but even more yellowish then that. completely pushed intensity. no white in it, no paleness, just yellow for brightness.

turquoise is ok for blue too, the intellect/though color. this does have lots of white lightness and just a smidge of green so its not totally just a light blue, but it looks more a light blue then anything else.
sky color basically. the actual sky color, but of course that depends on where you are and a lot of other things. and turquoise goes with pumpkin/omaha orange, the color the highway department and the railroad used to paint all their maintanence vehicles and equipment.

all these things cheer my mood, and several others, but red does just the opposite, it makes me irritable, and annoys me itself. and white, well that's totally a matter of context.
off whites always feel like garbage, well i shouldn't say always. white is ok if its living fur on a polar bear or an ermine or some other little creature, lab mice and rats.
they're fun because of their being full of life, like cats too. dogs are ok, but are usually a little bit too full of it. and white on a dog, just isn't or doesn't.

white on a fursuit looks good, provided you don't often attempt outdoor photo shoots with it.

other things affect my mood more. mazes and being able to and not distracted from exploring them are good.
generally distractions, all distractions, are negative.

 

Does different colours of lighting affect your mood? We have some bright orange overhead lights on some of our motorways, they give me a headache.
My sons used to call them hot lights when they were small,

 

Sorry, I don't keep links. Academics tend to be anal retentive and then insult me no matter what evidence I present them, and they are merely the more consistent.

 

Oh, that is a shame, I was interested. No worries.

 

Ignorance is bliss.

 

yes, the spectrum of light in natural sunlight always feels to some degree uplifting, even when nothing else is.
other sources of light being less complete. the green of mercury vapour outdoor lighting is interesting.
the slightly orangishness of incandescent lighting is what i grew up with.
lots of people found neon unpleasant for a combination of reasons, though i was ok with the light from it.
well low light levels are like mazes, they invite the mind to explore, but then there's a problem with reading anything unless the text is a source of light itself.

 

True.

 

How aptly you put that. Shadows can evoke all sorts of imaginings.

 

actually i have not always found that to be the case, only that many people act like they think it is.
i have always found being kept ignorant annoying and depressing both.
and people having to live in those conditions in order to have money, all the money in the world cannot compensate.

of course there are some things i'd love to be able to ignore, if i could do so off somewhere that it wouldn't hurt anyone or anything.
insulation from attempts to influence, especially crude and obvious ones, yes, there is a certain bliss in not watching the crap on tv.