Do Colors Affect Your Mood?

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Do colors affect your mood, urges and everyday life? The answer is yes, to some and no to others. Some people believe that certain colors can trigger an urge or emotion.Like for instance seeing the color purple can make you more romantic. The color green can make you feel relaxed or help you decompress. Some studies suggest that painting certain rooms, certain colors can make your social life and home life easier and less stressful. Studies also show that if classrooms are colorful, it could benefit the children, either in their learning abilities, visual thinking, problem solving, and creativity. Also scientist believe seeing a certain color, like red for instance will make you crave some sort of food, particularly a red food like an apple, licorice, or cherries.

Color psychology from infoplease.com says that colors can affect your mood. For instance black makes you feel like you and power and authority. Actually priest started wearing black to show submission to god. Black also symbolizes death and loss. Now yellow is a more cheerful color. Yellow makes you feel giddy and happy. Yellow is an attention getter because of how bright it is. Yellow is actually one of the hardest colors for our eyes to take in. However purple is the color to make you feel royal, luxurious, or romantic. Thats only because purple symbolizes wealth and sophistication.

Certain colors can stimulate the appetite. Some information I found was from the site education.com. Psychologist suggest that some colors can make your appetite sky-rocket. Well those colors are red and yellow. Red influences you, it draws you in, excites you, and it also increases your heart rate. Yellow does the same plus some. Yellow also increases your...

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...e a child's IQ as much as 12 points by attracting a child's attention to details.The ranking of color preference internationally is blue, followed by red, green, violet, orange, and yellow.Small children naturally prefer luminous colors like red, orange, yellow, and pink.Reading comprehension increased 80% in dyslexic children when using a blue or gray overlay on the page.Along with having the right color in your child's learning environment.
In short, if you want your child to learn better, consider the power of color. Because 80% of the brain receives information visually, be sure to incorporate the element of color as you homeschool and paint the perfect picture for your child's educational future.

Well I hope this paper entertained you and made sense. I find this subject very interesting. Who knows what else colors can affect. I guess we will know in due time.

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