It’s 1:30am here in Virginia but I have a good reason for still being awake. I just got off the phone with George Noory the host of Coast to Coast AM.
He had seen the news story “Study says the woman in red drives the men crazy,” and wanted to know, “Is it true?”
Since the results came as no surprise to me I confidently said “Yes!” and then shared some of the science behind the psychological effects of the color red.
Basically here’s what happens–
When we see red it sparks (more…)
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Study released today:
By Will Dunham Will Dunham – Tue Oct 28, 1:44 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If a woman wants to drive the men wild, she might want to dress in red.
Men rated a woman shown in photographs as more sexually attractive if she was wearing red clothing or if she was shown in an image framed by a red border rather than some other colour, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
The study led by psychology professor Andrew Elliot of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, seemed to confirm red as the colour of romance (more…)
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Color has this incredible ability to evoke memories. Sometimes we’re not aware of what’s going on in the back of our mind but have a strong like or dislike for a particular color.
Other times a color, or maybe more correctly a color in a specific context, can take us through the millions of images in our mind and locate exactly where we’ve seen that color before. Recently I was reminded of just how powerful this phenomenon is.
I have received several emails from someone who uses a green font and whenever I read his messages I find my mind calling up images of my father’s handwriting.
You see my dad always loved to write with ballpoint pens or flair markers with green ink. It quite literally became his signature color.
So although the context is a bit different when I see the green font it so clearly brings my father’s handwriting into my mind that even seven years after his death I can see his signature as clearly in my mind as if I was looking down at it on a piece of paper.
Amazing isn’t it?
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Color Memories Stay With Us
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Here is a sign I see at least three times a week and it has become a good reminder to me of how strong our associations with particular colors can be.
Can you guess where it is?
I just posted a short article inspired by this sign. You can read it here…
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Behind South Carolina’s drab prison walls, the colors of clothing can mean a lot.
An inmate wearing something red would likely be linked to the Bloods street gang. Blue is the color for the Crips, a rival gang. Unless you’re a guard, the state wouldn’t put you in those colors.
Most inmates wear tan jumpsuits. Yellow ones are for prisoners in isolation; green for those sentenced to die; orange for the ones transferred from county jails.
A federal judge will decide on the most controversial jumpsuit color: pink.
Continue reading on the Winston-Salem journal…
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Red - The Color of Romance!
Scarlet, Crimson, Torch Red, Lipstick Red, Red Rose, Paint the Town Red, Red Hot, Red Handed, Candy Apple Red, Fire Engine Red, Blood Red, Red Letter Day, Red Bull. Red is not passive or fluffy. Red is attention-getting. Red is assertive. Red is action and energy. Red is powerful. (more…)
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Each weekday Squidoo’s Editor in Chief, Megan Casey, highlights a lens that stands out from the crowd, a lens that is unique in topic, approach, personality, tools or timing and today it was my lens on Color Meaning, Symbolism and Psychology.
Thanks so very much Megan! (more…)
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Colors are of philosophical interest for two kinds of reason. One is that colors comprise such a large and important portion of our social, personal and epistemological lives and so a philosophical account of our concepts of color is highly desirable.
The second reason is that trying to fit colors into accounts of metaphysics, epistemology and science leads to philosophical problems that are intriguing and hard to resolve. Not surprisingly, these two kinds of reasons are related.
The fact that colors are so significant in their own right, makes more pressing the philosophical problems of fitting them into more general metaphysical and epistemological frameworks.
Go to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Color…
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