In twelve pages this paper discusses how color impacts the home, the workplace, educational and laboratory settings in this psychological analysis that explores the relationship between colors and emotions. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
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recommendation for positive colors to be used in work and home environments, researchers have studied the biological perception of color, the relationships between color and emotion and the different colors
which can be used to increase productivity and performance levels. In addition, therapists have used color incorporated with other factors in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, children and people
with behavioural problems. The Study of Color Color has been studied from philosophical, biological, anthropological and psychological perspectives over the course of
time and although many researchers believe that the perception of color is biologically based, how the perceptions of these colors affects our emotions and reactions may be based on cultural,
psychological and age influences. Color sensitivity has been established to occur differently in different species and is dependent on four properties fundamental to the discrimination of color: wavelength discrimination, metamerism
in color mixture, sensitivity to color and contrast, and a response consistency between the recognition of colors (Saunders 1998). The sensitivity to color is defined by a species "color
space" which for humans in based on three dimension and is therefore "trichromatic" while other animals may be dichromats, tetrachromats, or pentachromats. These differences in color ranges make cross species
research difficult but within species research possible. In addition, it has been studied that the perception of color within a species, humans for example, is also highly influenced by the
environment into which the color has been presented. Colors presented to human subjects within a lab environment often have quite different effects than colors presented in the natural world (Saunders
1998). To overcome the variance in environment effects upon the perception of color, researchers introduce various factors into the laboratory setting to try and account for the sensation of color.