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Love, Money, and Success Is Yours Just By Wearing The Right Colors
Looking to ace that upcoming interview? What should you wear on your next date? Updating your home? Buying new clothing? The colors you choose matter- more than you think.
You might think that the concept of colors affecting your health or outlook is nonsense, but you’d be wrong.
Hundreds of color psychology studies have demonstrated that colors can profoundly influence your decision making process. They can also tangibly affect your emotional state. The jury’s still out on health, but there’s a reason hospital rooms aren’t painted angry red, sickly yellow, or deathly black.
Colors affect you this way: your eye receives wavelengths of light that are converted into electrical impulses. This influences your hypothalamus, the part of your brain producing hormones that induce anger, joy, grief, and even hunger. As a result, you might even carry a genetic bias toward certain colors. Why? Because you associate them with good or bad environmental conditions.
You might be wondering how you can use color for success in business and marketing. To answer that, let’s take a look at the meanings people often ascribe to different colors:
Red is most often associated with danger or focused attention. If you consider humanity’s history with fire…