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    Color Psychology

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    Color psychology is a complex subject with interactions between light, human perception and physiology. While the effects of color are often dismissed as subjective, research indicates colors have predictable psychological impacts. Color signals in nature influence unconscious instincts and the colors we see in our environment and on others continue to send signals that affect us. Each color has an inherent energy that interacts with our endocrine system and has been shown to be perceptible even to blind people. The psychological properties of basic colors seem to be universal, and the impacts of a color depend on its combinations with others.

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    Color Psychology

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    Color psychology is a complex subject with interactions between light, human perception and physiology. While the effects of color are often dismissed as subjective, research indicates colors have predictable psychological impacts. Color signals in nature influence unconscious instincts and the colors we see in our environment and on others continue to send signals that affect us. Each color has an inherent energy that interacts with our endocrine system and has been shown to be perceptible even to blind people. The psychological properties of basic colors seem to be universal, and the impacts of a color depend on its combinations with others.

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    Color psychology is a complex subject with interactions between light, human perception and physiology. While the effects of color are often dismissed as subjective, research indicates colors have predictable psychological impacts. Color signals in nature influence unconscious instincts and the colors we see in our environment and on others continue to send signals that affect us. Each color has an inherent energy that interacts with our endocrine system and has been shown to be perceptible even to blind people. The psychological properties of basic colors seem to be universal, and the impacts of a color depend on its combinations with others.

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    Color psychology is a complex subject with interactions between light, human perception and physiology. While the effects of color are often dismissed as subjective, research indicates colors have predictable psychological impacts. Color signals in nature influence unconscious instincts and the colors we see in our environment and on others continue to send signals that affect us. Each color has an inherent energy that interacts with our endocrine system and has been shown to be perceptible even to blind people. The psychological properties of basic colors seem to be universal, and the impacts of a color depend on its combinations with others.

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    Color psychology is a matter of debate, to say the least.

    There are very

    few undisputed scientific research presented, yet an increasing

    number of physicists, psychologists, biologists and neuroscientists are

    taking the subject increasingly more seriously

    Many people think that color is just a matter of how things look and it is often dismissed as

    being purely cosmetic. However, the truth is that color is light – the source of life itself;

    there is nowhere that color does not exist and our instinctive, unconscious response to it is

    a vital element in our survival.

    Color is Nature's own powerful signaling system. Scientifically, it is the first thing we

    register when we are assessing anything: a very simple and obvious example of that is our

    reaction to a fly in our home: if it is black, we will probably find it a minor irritation, but if

    it has yellow stripes our reaction will be different. The same instinct tells us when food is

    unsafe to eat and throughout the animal kingdom color is widely used for signalling.

    In today's sophisticated world it is easy to underestimate the power of primitive instincts,

    as they are largely unconscious.The colors of the interior environment wherein we live

    or work affects us in just the same way as those in the natural world always did. The colors

    that people wear still send out clear signals that we can all read accurately. However, most of us
    agree that response to color is subjective and assumes that it must

    therefore be unpredictable. According to some research, this is not true. Response is subjective but,
    when the study of color harmony is combined with the science

    of psychology, reactions can be predicted with startling accuracy. There is no such thing as

    a universally attractive color. Red, for example, might be your favorite color but another

    person might hate it. You see it as exciting, friendly and stimulating, he sees it as aggressive

    and demanding. Blue might be perceived as calm and soothing – or as cold and

    unfriendly. It is the combination of colors that triggers the response. Color is light, traveling to us in
    waves from the sun. When light strikes any colored object,

    the object will absorb only the wavelengths that exactly match its own atomic structure

    and reflect the rest – which is what we see. Turn this around and it is easy to understand

    how the color of anything is a clear indication of its atomic structure or, in simple terms,

    what it is made of. When light strikes the human eye, the wavelengths do so in different

    ways, influencing our perceptions. In the retina, they are converted into electrical impulses
    that pass to the part of the brain governing our hormones and our

    endocrine system. Although we are unaware of it, our eyes and our bodies are constantly

    adapting to these wavelengths of light.

    Color is energy and the fact that it has a physical effect on us has been proved time and

    again in experiments – most notably when blind people were asked to identify colors with

    their fingertips and were all able to do so easily. in psychology it does not seem to matter what we
    think we are looking at; the effect of colors

    on us is caused by their energy entering our bodies. The eleven basic colors have fundamental
    psychological properties that are universal,

    regardless of which particular shade, tone or tint of it we are using. Each of them has

    potentially positive or negative psychological effects and which of these effects is created

    depends on the relationships within color combinations. In many ways, color and music work the
    same way. Or, as jazz pianist

    Thelonius Monk observed and told us that "There are no wrong notes".

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