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- Rndm_Tngnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6also:
"Peaceful, tranquil blue causes the body to produce calming chemicals,"
When I see a nice shade of cyan, I have noticed a tendency to shoot liquid valium from my nipples. I thought that was just me. - kevindigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sounds like my fourth grade science project.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doctors wear blue or green in operating rooms where they might get blood on them because blood appears brown on the blue or green scrubs, and it isn't as frightening to patients. However, a lot of this is cultural bias. In the East, white is the color of death and evil, whereas black represents life and goodness.
- hourigan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Black is the color of authority and power.", "Black also implies submission" Soft, but hard. Cold, but warm.....etc. Saying nothing, read what you want to read into it. Meaningless.
- Rabbethan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Like death and taxes, there is no escaping color." And if your colorblind?
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"They don't include my favorite color, clear."
I await monitors and operating systems that let me use translucent PNG wallpaper. That'd be nice, I think. - fionna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting, may use of the ideas in my next web site color selection
- EyeDye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"people lose their tempers more often in yellow rooms"
Digg needs a new color theme. - Rndm_Tngnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought doctors wore white because it's the color the lab coats come in. (also handy for spotting spills and blood stains!)
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"In the U.S. flag, white stands for purity and innocence. Red represents valor and hardiness, while blue signifies justice, perseverance, and vigilance. The stars represent the heavens and all the good that people strive for, while the stripes emulate the sun's rays."
Um since when do the stars and stripes represent the heavens and the sun? Stars represent the states, the stripes represent the original colonies. - dpl_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How did this get 700+ diggs!??!?!
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Black is the color of authority..." "Black also implies submission."
***** brilliant. No wonder it goes with everything, because it means everything, kind of like how a horoscope applies to everyone. "You are often meek, but sometimes you assert yourself. You have inflated opinions about yourself, but are too self-deprecating. You are left- or right-handed, but you use the other hand frequently. Fortune favors the bold; the best things come to those who wait." You just can't lose! - Inbal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Stopped reading at middle of white, after finding about 5 inaccuracies up to that point.
- VSack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Amen to all of you taking the time to realize what a load of crock this is. So much of today's punditry (this is what this, you know that right?) always alludes to some magnificent survey or study. Heck, you've got to love "Some people say" or "Experts agree" without citing your sources as so often the media does today.
"Studies show weightlifters are able to handle heavier weights in blue gyms"
Really? What study? I couldn't find it on Google, Yahoo or Clusty?" Are you sure this isn't something you are just saying to attempt to sound professional?
Yet the droves flock, and we all sit here to whine and complain. Perhaps decency will someday win....but probably not in our lifetimes. - RP53, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Even the dog won't eat the blue jello.
- bugazzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow..."researchers have generally found"...next time I spend 5 years getting a PhD, I'll make certain to find a topic in the new, exciting, and explosively popular field of IOS (Insultingly Obvious Science). No digg, dig?
- nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2nothing better than the relaxing color of green...maybe i'll paint my walls green so i can relax more.
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1black and white aren't even colors
- tek1024, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@SkeletaLlama
Another reason docs & surgeons wear spinach green scrubs is that that particular color is the complement of blood red. You look down into someone's red guts for hours on end, then look up--there's a green afterimage. If you're seeing green all over the place, it puts a lot of fatigue on your eyes, prolonging the surgical procedure as the eyes adjust to the blood red, then to the room/nurses/&c. and back again. - cokebottletuque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how bout we get an anti digg and wen it gets to oh say 1.5 times the normal diggs it drops the article from the front page...
- ichibanatama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The entire article, including title, is misleading. It's more like an pop-culture-voodoo-healing-crystals approach to color analysis than anything to do with psychology. Total junk.
- diggn_it, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what the hell is this?! It looks like a freaking horror scope. How can black indicate submission AND power at the same time? The article also implies that doctors wear white because it "implies sterility" Or maybe its so they can tell when they themselves are contaminated, and its easier to see things like blood on...Worst article on digg I've ever seen on the front page
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I assume most people know that there is psychology in color, I guess you're finding out for the first time lol
- Strat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A lot of those descriptors are only valid in western meaning, i.e. where white is a brides color and sterile in China and other Asian countries white symbolizes death.
- pompom246, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow, even wikipedia could have given a better description of what the title implied. there's no basis for this to be a story, letalone homepage. --digg
- nene7070, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"What does it mean, Chad!?
(Chad throws down paper angrily)
Well if you'd let me talk..."
I love that...Nothing to do with the story, but hilarious anyway. - nakedrobot101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This was a great article. I'm building a web site right now and I think I'm going to try to incorporate these ideas into my site. If it works I will re-post all of the info about it.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Why are people more relaxed in green rooms? Why do weightlifters do their best in blue gyms?"
Um, I couldn't find an answer to most of these kind of questions there. :-p
I thought it would be a bit more scientific, but it just claimed a lot of stuff being a certain way, missing out on the actual explaining part. Why is blue often picked for loyalty? Well, don't look there for an answer. :-/
Many of us already know purple symbolizes royalty etc, but what would be really interesting would be some "color etymology" and actual psychology explanations behind colors. - Skrolnik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know, the first thing I thought of when I saw this link was the Wildfire Lab from Andromeda Strain, with it's color coding of the five levels based on a Navy study on the effects of color in the environment.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To pile on, I'm talking about things like these. :-)
"Purple sometimes symbolizes royalty, dating back to Roman times, when clothing dyed with Tyrian purple was limited to the upper classes. The color, which was closer to crimson than our idea of purple, was the favored color of many kings and queens. Byzantine empresses gave birth in the Purple Chamber of the palace of the Byzantine Emperors." - settsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@SkeletaLlama
Now THAT'S an interesing story on color...
You should post an article... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was just thinking about this earlier in the week. I was wondering if our reaction to colors is based on something primal and internal (biological/physiological) or if it was mostly associative based on society and culture. That is, would each color have the affect it does on people regardless of society and culture, period?
- settsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A far more in-depth look from a marketing side of the topic: http://pantone.com/products/products.asp?idArea=16
- Dracos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've seen better analysis of color than this page, which lacks orange, and is very Western-centric. (ie, in India, the meanings of white and black are almost opposite what they are in the west: brides wear black, white is associated with death).
No digg. - tehpwn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Better color theories, i mean....HEH
- scott1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Not technology related... :P"
Obvisouly your new to digg.This is put under the science catagory on digg and science is realted to digg.You'll see why this on digg in a few days if not hours. - Wires, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It explains this and that but fails to mention why. Why does green enhance vision? According to the article, spontaneously! Or it was implied.
- veeto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pretty poor. Just social and cultural, with little explanation of even that, no Digg. Seems just like a random collection of colour references.
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0450+ diggs? c'mon folks there are WAY better articles on color theory out there
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Better articles on color:
http://realtytimes.com/rtapages/20041105_colormood.htm
http://www.weprintcolour.ca/business_card_color.htm
http://www.pantone.com/products/products.asp?idArticle=112&idArea=16
Just to name a few. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My favorite color is popups. :) dugg
- motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This should be titled psychology of color IN WESTERN SOCIETY!
Real colour theory covers all nations/societies of the world. - tehpwn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Point some out then.
This is the best ive seen.
Digg? - ThePaleHunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The color of the sky and the ocean, blue is one of the most popular colors."
Uh huh... - granthobbs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The claims made about the meanings of the colors in the U.S. flag were, in fact, accurate.
See the Wikipedia article for further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Flag - followtheleader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The best (worst) part is the god awful image to the right of the article
http://img.infoplease.com/images/colorpsychfeat.jpg
oh no... save me from the pantone color swatches! - STRYCH9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There must be a way to undigg something, right?
- Fizzyboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too broad, I've already heard everything that was stated in that article.
I'll digg when I see a more in depth article. - acousticiris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Some of the statements are a bit misleading.
Of particular note was "People waiting to appear on TV sit in 'green rooms' to relax."
The term "green room" never had anything to do with the color. And, in fact, there I have yet to meet anyone who can identify the actual reason it's called a Green Room with any level of proof (Wikipedia even mentions a few possible reasons). There are plenty of theories, but the use of the term 'green' to imply it is a relaxation room is not plausible to me, and I've never actually heard that until reading it here.
In the limited work I've done, we always likened the color to mean "waiting" room... it's the place you sat while other people were performing, recording or acting. You sat there either waiting for them to finish, because you were next, or you sat there waiting to be called by whomever was coordinating the work in question. It's really rarely a comfortable room, in my limited experience. There's a door on one side that leads to the hallway with dressing rooms, and a door on the other side that leads to a hallway or to the backstage area.
In the more upper class venues, they'll be lavishly decorated and usually filled with lemons, water and finger sandwiches. In the lesser venues, they'll have a lamp, a couch that was taken from the foot of someones driveway and smell strange. But I have yet to sit in one that was actually green. And I have yet to 'relax' in one, regardless of color, decor or amenities.
...and yes, I know I'm nitpicking :-) ... - mote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Except most of these are specific to Western culture. In Japan and many other cultures white is the color of death not black. Lame story
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