“Effects of color are very real. Dr. Max Luscher[2] believed that colors have an emotional value and that a person’s reaction to color reveals his basic personality traits.” – C Ritberger
Our personality is like our automatic pilot, habitually processing information and making decisions in a consistent way. Our personality is made up of both traits and characteristics. Our traits are hard-wired, emotional responses. “Traits are genetic coding that determines the way our brain develops and functions around mental processes, which is how we gather and process information and make decisions”. [1] Traits drive the way we live, develop our strengths and weaknesses, dictate how we perceive things, predispose us to certain attitudes, values, beliefs and motivations. Traits also shape what irritate us, direct how stress affects us, influence our self-esteem, and shape our coping mechanisms. Characteristics, in contrast, are behaviors that we have learned from our life experiences.
Sharry Edwards grouped pitches of associated emotions into according to personality traits. As we saw earlier, doubling a given frequency creates octaves. This “multiplying effect” can be repeated many times to form octaves of much higher frequencies. Frequency-Equivalents of emotions can be doubled by octaves until they are in the range of wavelengths of color. In this way Sharry correlated colors and emotions. The hues within a given color (for example, blue, blue-green and blue-yellow) represent a personality trait or type. Sharry reflected that our language verifies links between colors and emotions. For example, “he was green with envy”. “She was so angry she saw red”. “Her sadness made her blue”. Even the Internet’s Wikipedia reports that the color of money is equivalent to the pitch of an F or F#, which correlates to the color of green.
The classification of personality trait by color is a non-threatening, reflective means to analyze others and yourself. Each color relates to personality strengths and weaknesses. This process is a non-judgmental way of seeing differences in people and how those differences impact us.
“Effects of color are very real. Dr. Max Luscher[2] believed that colors have an emotional value and that a person’s reaction to color reveals his basic personality traits. His research provided conclusive evidence that colors create the same psychological, emotional and physiological reaction in each person”.[3]
Although we all experience the entire gamut of emotions, when we have feelings outside of our core personality for an extended time we feel stressed. These times force us to be flexible, which can improve our personality characteristics or cause emotional and psychological problems.
Next week we will discuss the meaning of various colors, tones and personalities!
[1] Ritberger, Carol, PHD. What Color is your Personality? Hay House: Carlesbad, CA, 2000. Pg. 7.
[2] Dr. Max Lūscher developed a famous color test during the early 1900’s. He has devoted his life to the study of how color affects behavior. The test itself is based upon fundamentals in color psychology. With years of research by color psychologists the characteristics of certain colors has been identified to cause an emotional response in people. This was done by studying the response from hundreds of thousands of test subjects around the world in order to isolate how certain colors make us feel. By doing the reverse, using the colors people prefer to determine how people feel, we can get some interesting indicators about a person’s current emotional state.
[3] Ritberger, Carol, PHD. What Color is your Personality? Hay House: Carlesbad, CA, 2000. Pg 44.
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