The Psychology and Meaning of Colors

I haven't posted anything on this site for a bit. Thought I would add some information about color and how it affects people on an emotional level. And symbolism too. Your own thoughts on what your favorite colors mean to you would be good to talk about.







What is it about the rainbow that gives most people a sense of happiness? Sure, it signifies the calm after a storm, but the colors themselves have an effect on our minds.



There is a reason why people prefer certain colors over others. This preference says volumes about our personalities, because each color has an association with a reaction our brain has when we internalize it.



Color psychology is a well-known, yet less explored branch of the study of how our brain perceives what it visualizes. As far as scientific research goes, there is not much to work with. However, the impact that colors have on our brains is used to manipulate our decision making by multiple facets of society.



http://www.colorpsychology.org/



Below is a listing of some colors with their associated psychological and emotional meanings...



The Color Red:








alertness
ambition
aggression
battle
beauty
brilliance
charity
charm
circulation
communism
compassion
courage
danger
desire
determination
devotion
domination
eccentricity
emotion
energy
eroticism
excitement
extroversion
fashion
fervor
fire
friendship
hate
heat
high voltage
intensity
life
love
luck
lust
madness
martyrdom
motion
movement
murder
pain
passion
patriotism
power
prohibition
prostitution
rage
rebellion
rescue
revolution
romanticism
sacrifice
sensuality
sexuality
sin
speed
strength
suffering
succes
tension (political, social)
thrill
triumph
urgency
victory
violence
vitality
war

The Color Orange:






action
ambition
appetite
assurance
celebration
change
charisma
communication
competence
coziness
creativity
determination
disorder
domination
dryness
earth
emotion
encouragement
endurance
energy
enthusiasm
exaggeration
excitement
expansion
explosion
extravagance
extroversion
exuberance
fascination
fitness
flavor
flexibility
friendship
fun
generosity
happiness
health
heat
humanism
humor
independence
invitation
joy
laughter
motivation
practicality
radiation
security
service
society
smile
success
sunset
temptation
tropic
visibility
warmth
warning
wisdom


The Color Yellow:





activity
aspiration
alertness
brightness
caution
communication
confidence
energy
expansion
expression
extroversion
fear
forgiveness
friendship
gaiety
happiness
idealism
ideas
imagination
intelligence
innovation
inspiration
intuition
joy
knowledge
laughter
logic
light
optimism
order
philosophy
playfulness
power
satisfaction
signal
spontaneity
stimulation
summer
sunshine
thought
uncertainty
warmth
warning
wisdom
youth


The Color Green:





adventure
aspiration
calmness
cleanliness
comfort
efficiency
environment
equilibrium
faith
fertility
foliage
frankness
freedom
freshness
friendship
generosity
good luck
grass
growth
harmony
health
hope
laziness
life
open air
outdoors
moist
mucous
nature
neutrality
progress
prosperity
quietness
relaxation
renewal
reproduction
safety
security
sincerity
spring
sympathy
vegetation
vigor
wisdom
youth



The Color Blue:





acceptance
authority
balance
calmness
care
caution
cleanliness
coolness
cooperation
compassion
confidence
contemplation
culture
depression
despair
depth
dignity
faith
flexibility
frankness
freedom
freshness
goodness
harmony
honesty
hope
ice
infinity
intelligence
introspection
isolation
law
logic
loyalty
maturity
obedience
order
peace
piety
power
protection
quality
quietness
reflection
reliability
responsibility
sadness
security
self control
serenity
sincerity
solitude
stability
stiffness
technology
tenderness
tradition
tranquility
transparency
trust
truth
unity
value
virtue
water


The Color Purple or Violet:






ambition
aristrocracy
art
anxiety
beauty
balance
compassion
conflict
contrition
coolness
creativity
drama
dream
dignity
enchantment
enigma
extravagance
fantasy
fashion
femininity
grief
homosexuality
independence
individualism
inspiration
intelligence
introspection
intuition
justice
knowledge
leadership
luxury
magic
majesty
meditation
mood
mystery
mysticism
nobility
nostalgia
passiveness
penitence
preciousness
pride
quietness
reflection
religious devotion
responsibility
royalty
sadness
secrecy
sensuality
seriousness
shadows
sobriety
solemnity
solitude
sophistication
sorrow
spirituality
splendor
style
sublimation
suffering
superstition
truth
value
wealth
wisdom
wit
vanity


This is just a small listing associating adjectives for a few colors. Psychology and marketing play a huge role in advertising the value of a product in the minds eye. It adds a certain level of enchantment when people see bright colors to enhance their emotional levels. One must be aware of how these things affect the mind and spirit. Because you can be sure that psychologists and marketers of all sorts know these things fully. They are well practiced at using the rainbow to further wicked agendas and sell cheap plastic products to an unsuspecting public.

How about black?

Blow it out your ass!

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
 

Good subject. Emotions and colors of the rainbow. The historical symbolism of the rainbow is interesting also. I was doing a little research into that. There are the religious ones to look at. Plus the cultural aspects through time. Whether or not a rainbow should have 5,6, or 7 colors....it's probably infinite anyhow. But, surfing around the idea came of the analogy of the rainbow and musical scale. They correspond so well together. So it brought me to musical traditions around the world. Here's a page giving a little info on that:


MUSICAL TRADITIONS Of Scales and Modes


http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hend/VictoryMusic/Sept-MusicalTrad_OfScalesAndModes.html 

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Good subject. Emotions and colors of the rainbow. The historical symbolism of the rainbow is interesting also. I was doing a little research into that. There are the religious ones to look at. Plus the cultural aspects through time. Whether or not a rainbow should have 5,6, or 7 colors....it's probably infinite anyhow. But, surfing around the idea came of the analogy of the rainbow and musical scale. They correspond so well together. So it brought me to musical traditions around the world. Here's a page giving a little info on that:

MUSICAL TRADITIONS Of Scales and Modes

http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hend/VictoryMusic/Sept-MusicalTrad_OfScalesAndModes.html

Nice mnemonic



Real rainbows are nice. Timing and awareness of the elements that need to come together lets one witness them more often.

The above link was bad...so here it is again:

http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hend/Victor...Modes.html

Makes a good basic framework to build on. What does a rainbow sound like?

https://30secondrule.wordpress.com/2010/...s-rainbow/

This fascinating test helps you find out how many colours you can see

Count the number of colours and shades you can see in the spectrum:

Find out your results here:

http://brightside.me/article/one-fascina...see-28105/

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