'Feeling blue' or 'seeing things through rose-tinted glasses' may not just be melodramatic statements. New research suggests that emotions can actually influence the way we see color. Feeling sadness may affect the way we perceive color the results of two recent studies have proved.
In one study, the researchers had 127 undergraduate participants watch an emotional film clip and then complete a visual judgment task. The participants were asked to watch an animated film clip designed to induce sadness, or a standup comedy clip meant to elicit fun and amusement. After watching the video clip, the participants were shown 48 consecutive, desaturated color patches and were asked to indicate whether each patch was red, yellow, green or blue.
It turned out that participants who were made to feel sad were less accurate in identifying colors on the blue-yellow axis than those who were caused to be amused or emotionally neutral.
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INC News, 04/09/2015 - via RT
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