Colour And Temperature Experiment

3. Introduction:
This experiment was performed to determine whether colour has an influence on a person’s mood, blood pressure and pulse rate. People attach different meanings to different colours that may influence their emotions, blood pressure and pulse rate. Different coloured lights; blue, green, red, yellow and white (neutral) were used in a dark room and the participant’s blood pressure and pulse rate was monitored and recorded on an observation sheet to determine if colour has an influence on these variables. More so, to determine whether warmer colours such as red and yellow would increase the blood pressure and pulse rate, and the cooler colours such as blue and green would give a more calming effect. After exposure to a specific

The colours red, yellow, blue and lighter shades of these colours where used. Each subject was given a survey and asked to indicate the particular emotion associated with the particular colour. Odom and Sholtz (2004)’s study found that primary colours were more exciting and cheerful than non primary colours except for the colour blue. Yellow was seen to be more cheerful than red or blue. The overall effect of blue was more calming than red and yellow. The lighter red however had about the same calming effect as the blue colour. This study supports the theory that different colours do cause different moods.

A study performed on 60 children examining colour-emotion associations by Boyatzis and Varghese (2004) found all the children had an emotional response to every colour. Red had the highest emotional responses. Positive emotions such as happiness, excitement and strength were experienced with bright colours and negative emotions, sadness, anger and boredom were experienced with the dark

Their blood pressure was measured before and after exposure to each colour. Time intervals of 3 minutes were given to enable the subject’s blood pressure to normalize before being exposed to a different colour. This study proved that different colours have an effect on blood pressure. Red and yellow increased blood pressure, while blue decreased blood pressure. Green and black had fluctuating effects. The sources used by the student in this study are valid and accurate as these studies have been cited by others. UK Essays only use expert researchers and only release documents that have been