From: Rilla Chaney (rillac@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 24 2005 - 21:03:56 PDT
Message-Id: <0B9B54A8-B53F-11D9-931D-000A95B5AA1E@exploratorium.edu> From: Rilla Chaney <rillac@exploratorium.edu> Subject: Re: pinhole colors, perception and emotion Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:03:56 -0700
Research was done on using different colors in jail holding spaces.
Pink turned out to have a calming effect on agitated prisoners
initially, but the effect wore off. I can't remember how long the
effect lasted, but it was hours not days.
Rilla
On Apr 24, 2005, at 8:51 PM, Raleigh McLemore wrote:
> My middle daughter is asking me if there are any scientific studies
> that discuss how humans perceive colors. I vaguely remember reading
> about how certain colors, pastel greens and blues I think, tend to be
> calming. Never really tried to understand it, and I guess I am pretty
> skeptical about possible cultural bias in studies like this.
>
> Her second question is "Are there colors that seem to evoke emotion
> more than other colors?" I guess she's talking about things like
> "red=danger" but I know that red is a lucky color in parts of Asia and
> I don't know of any color that seems to catch a humans eye more than
> any other color.
>
> I think she is talking about colors in the abstract, I know that
> organisms use color to hide and to be seen, but her question is about
> provable emotional content to colors.
>
> Anyone?
>
> With firm handshake,
> Raleigh
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