Can different colours have a certain affect on our mood?
It's everywhere we look and many of us take it for granted, which means most of us don't realise that colour has a profound effect on our moods, decisions and actions.
A new survey by 3M Post-it has revealed that Blue is the nation’s favourite colour despite the power it has to make us feel cold when we walk into a room.
The study also asked respondents which colours mean what to them, with yellow the colour most likely to be associated with happiness, grey with sadness, tiredness and anxiety, red with anger, irritation but also love, green with jealously and black with loss.
So what is it that daws us to a colour and makes us associate it with a feeling? If blue has the power to make us feel cold, why are the majority of us still drawn to it?
According to colour expert Karen Haller, some of the reasons we are drawn to the colour blue is that it can make us feel calm, logical and efficient.
So can surrounding yourself with certain colours directly affect your mood? Will leaving a note for someone on a red post it be interpreted differently than that written on a yellow and can surrounding yourself with the correct colours at work really help you concentrate or feel motivated?
Karen Haller, has dedicated her life to colour and is also the head of the UK operations of ‘Colour Cares’, a non-profit organisation dedicated to changing lives with the uplifting & healing power of colour, so what’s her take on the history and psychology of colour?
