Meaning of Orange

The orange color immediately captures the attention of the person staring.

According to color psychology, orange represents extravagance, energy, transformation, and uniqueness.

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Color Psychology: How Colors Affect Us and What Each One Means

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Can Color Affect Your Mood and Behavior?

Do you feel anxious in a yellow room? Does the color blue make you feel calm and relaxed? Artists and interior designers have long believed that color can dramatically affect moods, feelings, and emotions. "Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions," the artist Pablo Picasso once remarked.

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"Given the prevalence of color, one would expect color psychology to be a well-developed area. Surprisingly, little theoretical or empirical work has been conducted to date on color's influence ...

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

The Psychological Effects of Color

While most perceptions of color are subjective, some color effects have universal meaning.

Colors in the red area of the color spectrum are known as warm colors and include red, orange, and yellow. These warm colors evoke emotions ranging from feelings of warmth and comfort to feelings of anger and hostility.
Colors on the blue side of the spectrum are known as cool colors and include blue, purple, and green. These colors are often described as calm, but can also call to mind feelings of sadness or indifference.

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Color Psychology: How Colors Influence the Mind

The psychology of color as it relates to persuasion is one of the most interesting-and most controversial-aspects of marketing. The reason: Most of today's conversations on colors and persuasion consist of hunches, anecdotal evidence and advertisers blowing smoke about "colors and the mind."

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The Psychology Of Color: Research Findings

Up to 90% of snap judgments made about products can be based on color alone (depending on the product).
Colors influence how consumers view the "personality" of the brand in question.

The Psychology Of Color - Misconceptions

Elements such as personal preference, experiences, upbringing, cultural differences, context, etc., often muddy the effect individual colors have on us. So assertions on the effect of colors are often not based on scientifically sound evidence.

Nina Alvarez

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Color Psychology: How the Colors You Choose Affect Your Mood | Science of People

There are no magic bullet answers, but there are generalities that can be gleaned from decades of research on the patterns of what people think about each color. So, how can you pick the perfect color for each situation? Based on the research, here is your personal color guide.

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“We have a repository of information about a color. For example, the color blue is almost always associated with blue skies, which when we are children is a positive thing — it means playing out...

Color Suggestions

Desktop: Green, as it is the bit is restful for eyes and produces the least amount of eyestrain.
Work Out Clothes: Orange, the color of stimulation and enthusiasm.
Women’s Dating Clothing: Red, the color of passion and gets blood pumping.
Men’s Dating Clothing: Blue to communicate stability and calmness.
To Look Aggressive: Black, as research correlates it with higher levels of aggression on sports teams that use it.
Office Walls: Blue and Green. Blue can lower heart rates and green reduces anxiety and is associated with money.
Work Clothing: Not grey, as it inspires people to be passive, uninvolved and have a lack of energy.

Research And Color

Research says colors can absolutely affect your mood, behavior and stress levels. It also claims there are generalities that can be gleaned from decades of research on the patterns of what people think about each color but no absolute truth.

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