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  2. Color psychology - Wikipedia

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    Blue light causes people to feel relaxed, which has led countries to install blue street lights in order to decrease suicide rates. [24] A railroad company in Japan installed blue lighting at its stations in October 2009 in an effort to reduce the number of rail suicide attempts, [25] although the effect of this technique has been questioned. [26]

  3. Opponent-process theory - Wikipedia

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    A-process refers to the one of the emotional internal processes or responses of the opponent-process theory. The A-process is largely responsible for the initial, usually fast and immediate, emotional reaction to a stimulus. The theory considers it a primary process which may be affectively positive or negative, but never neutral. [2]

  4. Blue Mind - Wikipedia

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    A review from The Guardian labeled Blue Mind "popular psychology", calling it "a study in water and why it makes us happy". [5] A review from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography said " Blue Mind is an interesting read and presents a different perspective on water than we typically think about during the course of our ...

  5. Overview effect - Wikipedia

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    The covering of blue was... the sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue that we have around us... And then suddenly you shoot through it... as though you whip off a sheet off you when you're asleep, and you're looking into blackness, into black ugliness, and you look down, there's the blue down there, and the black up there and it's...

  6. Affect (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Emotions are one of the main sources for the interaction. Emotions of an individual influence the emotions, thoughts and behaviors of others; others' reactions can then influence their future interactions with the individual expressing the original emotion, as well as that individual's future emotions and behaviors.

  7. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling.There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2]

  8. Blue - Wikipedia

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    Recognizing the emotional power of blue, many artists made it the central element of paintings in the 19th and 20th centuries. They included Pablo Picasso, Pavel Kuznetsov and the Blue Rose art group, and Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) school. [78] Henri Matisse expressed deep emotions with blue, "A certain blue penetrates your ...

  9. Theory of constructed emotion - Wikipedia

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    And in fact, people experience a whole range of wavelengths as "blue." Likewise, emotions are commonly thought of as discrete and distinct — fear, anger, happiness — while affect (produced by interoception) is continuous. The theory of constructed emotion suggests that at a given moment, the brain predicts and categorizes the present moment ...