What Is Color Psychology?

Color psychology is a very important subject. In terms of natural appreciation and social activities, color is an objective stimulus and symbol for people; subjective is also a reaction and behavior. The psychology of color begins through vision, and its reactions and changes from perception and emotion to memory, thought, will, and symbol are extremely complicated. The application of color attaches great importance to this kind of causality, that is, the accumulation of experience with color has become a psychological norm for color. What kind of response can be produced when stimulated, are all the content of color psychology.

More and more researches have been done on the relationship between color and human psychology, and the concept of "color psychology" came into being. Although color psychology has not been formally accepted by the psychological family, the effect of color on human psychological existence is objective, and this science has also begun to be used to solve psychological problems in real life. In different ages, different ideologies, and different fields, people may have different color preferences. However, the physiological mechanism shared by human beings and similar external stimuli makes the psychological effects of color similar. This also provides a breakthrough for understanding one's heart, so that we can understand others through color. ^[1]

The color observed in daily life is largely affected by psychological factors, that is, the psychological color visual sense. In color

Sport diving

In very popular recreational diving, people need to carry oxygen cylinders. An oxygen cylinder can supply oxygen for about 40-50 minutes, but most divers feel that they have only dived in the water for about 20 minutes after using up the oxygen in an oxygen cylinder. The variety of fish and beautiful corals in the ocean can attract divers' attention and therefore feel that time passes quickly, which is one of the reasons. More importantly, the ocean floor is a blue world surrounded by sea water. It is blue that paralyzes the diver's perception of time, making him feel less time than it actually is.

Lighting

This phenomenon is also very common in daily life, and lighting is one example. Under blue-white fluorescent lights, people will feel that time passes quickly, and under warm incandescent lamps, they will feel that time passes slowly. Therefore, if it is purely for work, it is best to do it under a fluorescent lamp. Incandescent lamps can make people feel long and prone to irritability. On the contrary, in the bedroom, it is more suitable to use warming lighting equipment such as incandescent lamps, which will create a leisure space of its own.

Fast food restaurants are not suitable for waiting

Fast food restaurants generally give us the impression that there are a lot of seats and high efficiency. Customers leave after eating and will not stay for long. Some people like to meet with friends at fast food restaurants, but in fact fast food restaurants are not suitable for people. This is because the decoration of many fast food restaurants is mainly orange or red. Although these two colors can make people feel happy, excited, and increase appetite, they can also make people feel long. If you are moderate in such an environment, you will become increasingly irritable.

The places that are more suitable for dating and waiting should be those cafes with colder colors. Speaking of nothing to do with color, the aroma of coffee also has a relaxing effect. In such an environment, waiting for your dream lover, I believe that you won't be irritated after waiting a long time. ^[3]

Color psychology spiritual value

People often feel the influence of color on their own psychology. These effects always affect unknowingly and affect our emotions. The psychological effects of color occur at different levels, some of which are direct stimuli, some of which are indirect associations, and higher levels involve human concepts and beliefs.

Material psychology of color psychology

The direct psychological effect of color comes from the direct effect of physical light stimulation of color on human physiological occurrence. Psychologists have done

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In many experiments, they found that in the red environment, people's pulses will increase, blood pressure will rise, and emotions will be more easily excited. In the blue environment, pulses will slow down and emotions will be quiet. Some scientists have discovered that color can affect brain waves, and brain waves respond to red when they are alert; relax blue when they react. These experiences tell us that we definitely affirm the effect of color on human psychology.

Cold and warm colors are the physical classification of colors based on psychological illusions. The material impression of colors is roughly generated by the two colors of cold and warm. Long wavelengths of red, orange, and yellow light have a warmth by themselves, so that any light irradiated with any color will have a warmth. On the contrary, purple light, blue light, and green light with a short wavelength have a cold feeling. In summer, we turn off the incandescent lights in the room and turn on the fluorescent lights, and we will have a cool feeling. ^[4]

In addition to giving us different sensations in temperature, cold colors and warm colors also bring other feelings. For example, a feeling of weight, a feeling of humidity, and the like. For example, warm colors are more heavy, cold colors are lighter; warm colors have a dense feeling, and cold colors have a thin feeling. Compared with the two, cold colors have a stronger sense of transparency, while warm colors have a weaker sense of transparency. Cold colors appear moist and warm colors appear dry. Cold colors have a feeling of receding, warm colors have a feeling of imminence. These feelings are biased towards physical impressions, but they are not physical realities, but subjective impressions produced by our psychological effects. They belong to a kind of psychological illusion. ^[5]