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  2. Color psychology - Wikipedia

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    The "rose of temperaments" (Temperamenten-Rose) compiled by Goethe and Schiller in 1798/9.The diagram matches twelve colors to human occupations or their character traits, grouped in the four temperaments: * choleric (red/orange/yellow): tyrants, heroes, adventurers * sanguine (yellow/green/cyan) hedonists, lovers, poets * phlegmatic (cyan/blue/violet): public speakers, historians ...

  3. Earth tone - Wikipedia

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    The color palette of earth tone typically includes warm and muted shades of brown, green, gray, and beige. Other colors that may be included in the earth tone palette are muted shades of orange, red, and yellow. These colors are inspired by the colors of the earth and can be found in natural materials like clay, sandstone, and rusted metal ...

  4. Opponent process - Wikipedia

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    Experiments by Zeki et al., [37] using the Land Color Mondrian, have shown that when normal observers view, for example, a green surface which is part of a multi-colored scene and which reflects more green than red light it looks green and its afterimage is magenta. But when the same green surface reflects more red than green light, it still ...

  5. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    associative synesthesia: feeling a very strong and involuntary connection between the stimulus and the sense that it triggers For example, in chromesthesia (sound to color), a projector may hear a trumpet, and see an orange triangle in space, while an associator might hear a trumpet, and think very strongly that it sounds "orange".

  6. Why Red and Green Became the Shades of the Holiday Season

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    Traditional red and green ornaments on a Christmas tree. Aside from being beautiful, the colors of the holiday season have some significance, some culturally and some simply commercially.

  7. Opponent-process theory - Wikipedia

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    The colors in each pair oppose each other. Red-green receptors cannot send messages about both colors at the same time. This theory also explains negative afterimages; once a stimulus of a certain color is presented, the opponent color is perceived after the stimulus is removed because the anabolic and catabolic processes are reversed. For ...

  8. Truth in Advertising: What Does 'Green' Really Mean? - AOL

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    The 2010 TerraChoice study found 73% more "green" products in U.S. and Canadian markets, compared to last year. Dr. Hutton also points to studies of how people chose between various products and ...

  9. Theory of Colours - Wikipedia

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    Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap.. Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how they are perceived by humans.