This document discusses how different colors can affect mood. It presents surveys showing most people prefer light colors over dark, and how colors like red, yellow, green and blue make people feel. Red may increase heart rate while yellow enhances concentration. Green is calming and blue is peaceful. Black can feel overpowering or sad. The document hypothesizes that color wavelengths interact with hormones to change mood, and colors evoke memories from past experiences. While reactions vary between individuals, colors generally have subtle effects on human psychology and emotion.

1. Colors
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2. “COLORS ARE THE SMILES OF
NATURE.”
-LEIGH HUNT

3. Survey Shows
Do you like dark colors or light colors?
Light
Dark
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
• Data obtained from self-generated. Take survey
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4. RED
• Stimulates a faster
heartbeat and breathing.
• Symbolizes love
• Red clothing gets noticed
and makes the wearer
appear heavier.
• Attract attention.
• Alert

5. Hello ..Yellow
• Considered an optimistic color
• People lose their tempers more often
in yellow rooms
• Difficult color for the eye to take in
• Enhances concentration
• Speeds metabolism

6. Green
• Symbolizes nature
• Easiest color on the eye
• Calming
• Refreshing
• Relaxes people

7. Blue
• Peaceful
• Calming
• Cold and
depressing
• Symbolizes loyalty

8. Black
• Power
• Priests wear black
to signify
submission to God
• Overpowering
• Sad

9. Survey Shows
9
How do you feel when you see the color
black?
12 Calm
5
Sad
Happy
17
Overpowering
• Data obtained from self-generated. Take survey
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10. Thesis
• Even though everyone is different, certain
colors can instantly change a person’s
mood.

11. Main Idea
Our culture and personal experience’s with
certain colors.

12. For Example…
• Red making your
heart race since it’s
linked with fire
trucks and
ambulances (in
other words, alarm)

13. Or….
• Yellow having
positive association
simply because it
was the color of
the sun.

14. Main Idea
Scientist’s hypothesized that the
wavelengths of color interact with people's
hormonal systems to change their moods.

15. In Other Words..
When we look at
certain colors, the
colors will bring you a
certain emotion from
your past
experiences.

16. Conclusion
• Everyone is different and we live through
different beliefs. We all had different
situations with certain colors. And since we
also have different personalities we find
other colors pleasing to the eyes.
• So even though we don’t know exactly how
colors affect our mood we do know that
colors do somehow blend into to our lives.

19. Colors are everywhere we look and
we react to them differently.

20. Works Cited
• Bender, Racheal Grumman. "How color affects our mood." 27
November 2011. Huffpost Healthly Living. 31 January 2013.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/27/how-color-affects-our-
moo_n_1114790.html>.
• "Color psychology ." n.d. Art Therapy . 31 January 2013 .
<http://www.arttherapyblog.com/online/color-psychology-
psychologica-effects-of-colors/#.UQqmk2dH4XV>.
• Contributor, eHow. "Does color affect your mood?" n.d. eHow.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5273168_color-affect-mood.html.
• Johnson, David. "Color Psychology ." 2007. Infoplease. 31
January 2013. <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html>.

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