Comments on: Colouring your mind – red improves attention to detail, blue boosts creativity

By: Paid Writing

Paid Writing — Wed, 11 May 2011 10:45:38 +0000

I have to thank you for making note of this, I need to see about nearly anything.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:37:25 +0000

It might be fruitful to consider the colours used in paintings from the Middle Ages, including stained glas works as well.
What’s the colour Christ is most often dressed in? And the Madonna?

By: spyra

spyra — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:16:17 +0000

I’ve read a few articles regarding color influence before, and here are a couple interesting things about color that I remember:
Yellow helps us concentrate (probably related to red, since both red and yellow are warning colors in nature) which is why legal pads are yellow.
Some time in the past century (I can’t remember exactly), there was a color switch between baby boy and baby girl colors. It used to be that pink was what boys would wear and blue was for girls instead. Blue was a calming color (sky, ocean) and suited a girl’s delicate personality, whereas pink was a toned-down red, the color of aggression. I have no idea why this trend flipped.
Pink is also a distracting color. Football teams will sometimes paint the opponent’s locker rooms pink so that they will lose focus before the game. (They paint their own rooms blue to help calm + focus).
Anyhow, great article. I have a few more tidbits on this subject, but I’m afraid this will end up as a very long comment… Color theory is interesting because it’s a byproduct of human evolution; our ability to distinguish colors aided in our survival in the wild.

By: Blue

Blue — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:40:38 +0000

There’s a new exhibition called Language of Color, how animals produce and communicate with color, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History — worth a visit if you’re in Cambridge, MA http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu

By: Marc Abian

Marc Abian — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:59:39 +0000

That’s awesome

By: Sili

Sili — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:24:11 +0000

For some reason I painted my bedroom in blue hues, but used a red design in the livingroom (and yelloworange in the kitchen). I wonder if that means anything.
Should I get coloured acetates to help me focus when I try to relearn some of my uni maths?

By: alufelgi do bmw

alufelgi do bmw — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:22:37 +0000

In my opinion the largest threat for California are cataclysms and ecological catastrophes. Not important is how many money we have because one tragedy can us take all.

By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:31:52 +0000

I confess that before I hit the jump I was thinking, “Slow news day, Ed?”. But the sharp contrast in these results is astonishing!

By: Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:59:19 +0000

That’s a great question. And yes, there will almost certainly be different effects in different cultures. Mehta and Zhu make no assertions abotu innate characteristics – they say that we develop these associations because of the recurring contexts in which we experience colours.
So, for example, in Chinese cultures where red is seen as a colour of good luck, you’ll probably see different things cropping up.

By: Lilian Nattel

Lilian Nattel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:55:46 +0000

Another question would be whether these associations are cross-cultural. Is it something innate in the human brain or would people from other cultures respond differently?