Scientifically, do colors influence people's feelings, thoughts, or actions?

Question

How?

Answer 1

Have you ever thought of the significance of the colors of the sky? or the color of the grass? The Lord certainly had a reason for everything, even for the colors of the sand. Green is a calming color, maybe that's why grass (which covers an abundant mass of land) is green. The blue of the sky excels the mind to aspiring thoughts. I am sure all colors for every different person have physical and mental effects. I wonder what effects colors have on the color-blind, they can't see them , I wonder if they can feel them?

Answer 2

Yes, they can. For instance, have you noticed that most successful fast food chains have bright red & yellow in their logo? This is because these are the colors are appetite stimuants. Another example is if you put a weird shade of food coloring on some food. If food looks a sickly green or lavendar, when it's supposed to be a golden yellow, people are less likely to eat it, even if they know it's just food coloring. Studies have shown that we learn better in yellow rooms, people lift weights better in blue rooms, and people are more impatient in red rooms.
The reasons for this aren't completely understood, but here are a few theories:
The environment we know. Blues and greens may be calming because we see so much in the natural world. Reds and yellows are common colors for healthy, ripe, cooked food. Blue is the least appetizing color because in the natural world, blue is a very rare food color, and also the color of many poisonous berries.
Another reason colors affect us the way they do may be because each color has it's own wavelength and frequency. Violets and blues have the lowest frequencies ranging to reds and oranges that have the highest frequencies. Perhaps the higher the frequency, the warmer, or more intense the color appears to us.

Answer 3

Everything is an influence colors, sounds, feelings ...everything that you perceive from your senses has a direct influence. Color combinations and patterns work well and are honed by masters of marketing to invoke feelings, thoughts, and actions. What do you think of when you see a coke or pepsi. Cold tasty refreshment. What if when you where growing up every time you wanted a coke you where shocked? The red coke can wouldn't evoke thoughts of a cold refreshment but of pain. Peace.

Answer 4

Yes, for many reasons.

First, even though you were taught in school that the basic colors are red, blue, and yellow scientifically and biologically speaking the three main colors are red, blue and green.

Our eye is physically able to see some colors better then other. The cones in our eyes are set to different colors. For example we can see red the brightest and the clearest. We do not have a lot of color receptors for blue so it is the weakest color; this is why blue fades into grey more easily then other colors.)

We are primates, and there is a reason we have color vision. For millions of years our brains have evolved to interpret what colors meant, like that red fruit is poison while that yellow fruit is good to eat.

Because we have needed and used our color vision for son long we have allot if instinctual reactions to colors. We can measure this, and it has been measures, by looking at different hormone levels in the brain and different brain wave patterns. In many ambulances and hospitals they have blue lights to calm people down because the color blue stimulates a different part of the brain then say, yellow.

We have also trained our selves to associate different colors with different things. All our lives we have had pavilion responses trained into our minds. For example when we are children boys are taught pink is for girls and girls are taught dark reds and blues are for boys. This sticks with us and even changes our neropatterns to respond to these colors differently.

This has been used in advertising for as long as advertising is around. Products that are meant to be relaxing will be featured with green and blues. Products that are meant to make us hungry, like fast foods, will have reds and yellows.

There has been a lot of research measuring our reactions to colors. We don’t know how much of a reaction to color is programmed vs. trained into our mind, but we will learn more about this topic in the next few decades.

Answer 5

If you look at the colors chain restaurants use, there is a direct relation of color types and appetite and mood.
The color pink has been used to calm people down in mental hospitals. So there is a connection to some degree.

Answer 6

Yes. most definitely. You can even say with full certainty that culture and survival was shaped by color. Many animals do not have this capacity and though strong and powerful, remained below the evolutionary scale compared with the human species.

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Answer 7

Yes. There was a study done of weightlifters lifting weights with screens of different colors in front of them and strength was dramatically decreased with certain colors probably affecting aggression as well.

Answer 8

Yes. We are "wired" in a way that we re-act to stimuli. It is like the flight or fight reaction it is base / reptilian brain response. Ow that's hot, mmmmm chocolate, huma humma yur hot! etc. Chemicals and electricity and magnetics affect the brain so we can make choices based on instinctual as opposed to imprinted programming.

Answer 9

Definately Yes!

Answer 10

yes they do but as a theory: everyone see's color different.
Everyone's eyes have been changed to identify with color (yellow, blue, green, red, etc.) But not everyone may see the color yellow as yellow but have been told this is yellow. so really what looks like yellow to me might be blue but i have been trained that it is Yellow. just food for thought. Color does grteatly effect mood and such the difference in color realeases a chemical in your brain making you feel the way you feel.