Psychology
 

Psychology of Colour

Colour Psychology covers the colour preferences of different people, such as children, adolescents, normal and abnormal groups.

By contrast, it also deals with the effects that colours have on people.

Colours have a special role to play in the expression of personality, mood and emotion.

Colour psychology studies the perception of colour and deals with some of the extraordinary illusions that are possible with colour. It also studies constancy , which is the even more amazing ability that one has to recognise the same colours under different lighting.

There are remarkable differences between the concepts of psychological colour-symbolism in the systems of Freud and Jung.

One of the strangest of phenomena under the heading of colour psychology is that of synaesthesia.


Index of Subjects
Colour Preferences Colours as Psychological Symbols
  • Colour preferences of the young.
  • Colour diagnostics.
  • Colour preferences of Dr Max Lüscher.
  • Male and Female colour preferences.
  • Bibliography.
  • Stimulant colours.
  • Power colours.
  • Restraint colours.
  • Subdued colours.
Effects of Colour on People Color Symbolism
  • Colour and temprament
  • Bibliography
 
Colour as an Instrument of Empowerment  
  • A program that analyses and empowers.
  • Meanings of the colours.
  • Stimulus gradient of colours.
  • Bicameral Theory.
  • The Brain.
  • Practical uses of the ProMICAD system.

Colour Perception and Illusion  
  • Constancy.
  • Illusory hue changes.
  • Illusory change in lightness.
  • Illusory change in saturation.
  • Change of apparent size.
  • Landscape.
  • Simultaneous contrast.
  • Metamerism.
  • After-image.
  • Stroop Effect.
 

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