Effect of Colour on Emotions: Study on 15 Participants

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Effect Of Colour On Emotions
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Contents
Abstract......................................................................................................................................3
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
Background................................................................................................................................4
Research Question......................................................................................................................5
Purpose of Research and Hypothesis.........................................................................................5
Hypotheses.................................................................................................................................6
Method.......................................................................................................................................6
Materials.................................................................................................................................6
Participants.............................................................................................................................6
Analysis......................................................................................................................................7
Linkage with previous research.................................................................................................8
Limitation...................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10
Appendices...............................................................................................................................12
Appendix A..........................................................................................................................12
Appendix B..........................................................................................................................13
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Abstract
The objective of this research is to study the effects of colour on an individual’s mood. The
five core emotions that will be examined are love, happiness, calmness, sadness and fear.
Fifteen participants (7 males and 8 females) were chosen through a well-designed sampling
process. The participants will be interviewed where they will be asked a series of ten
questions lasting around 6-8 minutes .One of the classrooms at the Kaplan Singapore Campus
will be used as the interview room. Each participant will be guaranteed confidentiality under
the guidelines laid down by Kaplan’s ethical consideration for academic research. Analysis
happen to be gathered and examined to discover the results of various colors had on students’
feelings in various aspects . This analysis would help with comprehending more regarding
colours and just how they have an effect on our emotions and for that reason to create much
better decisions and raise the utilization of areas when selecting colors with regard to various
areas to match the objective for the purpose they may be made.
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Introduction
Colour is a sensory perception and like all sensory inputs it has a profound effect of emotions
and moods. The world is full of colours that surround us and influence our emotions in ways
that we don’t fully understand yet. As stated by Buechner et al. (2015), in structures as well
as style, colors are required to improve feelings from unhappy to joy, afraid to comfortable,
puzzled to clever and so forth. The style of a provided area regarding lighting effects,
structure, audio and coloring can induce psychological reactions and impact the mood and
behavior of the person. Therefore, when we might determine the reactions to coloring
modifications after that it might be achievable to find out exactly how emotional balance
differ inside an closed area. The inside area as well as its atmosphere impact the
understanding and the behavior of the person by impacting on their behavior (Gernot,
Pelowski & Leder, 2018). It really is considered that numerous elements such as coloring as
well as lighting are significant feature of the adjacent surroundings, in open public area such
as classes.
Background
Colours is really a stabilizer of personal feelings. Trendy and warm shades are required to
enhance the state of mind for their beneficial attributes. Based on handling fluency principle,
surrounding constitutes a beneficial mood reaction once the surrounding characteristics and
the conditions of damaged mood are alligned .Generally the stimulant is the effect of a shade
with accordance to the assessed mood (Fernandez-Caballero et al. 2016).
The decision of coloring is a crucial element of design and style of intellectual effectiveness.
Design affluence that encourage mapping that comprise of shade, lighting effects, decorating,
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