Who can not feel happiness when they lay there eyes on a vase of sunflowers or a field of budding daffodils? There is nothing that helps me forget my worries more than a beautiful spring flower. I can not even begin to explain the overwhelming happiness I feel at just the sight of a budding sunflower. I was happy to find out that there is scientific research to explain the instantaneous mood boost that accompanies my spotting of bright yellow spring flowers.
According to the Huffington Post, there is scientific research about how the color yellow (and yellow spring flowers!) can boost your mood: A 2007 experiment analyzed how people behaved at cocktail parties hosted in three different colored rooms (yellow, red and blue). The party-goers in the yellow room were more lively and talkative compared with those in the other colored rooms. Although I can not paint the walls of my apartment (boo!) I think I will buy a bouquet of yellow spring flowers to boost my mood!
Do you like the color yellow? What boosts your mood?
daisy / 507 posts
I like red so danger :p
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I don’t know about the color yellow boosting my mood, but there’s something about the color blue especially a light blue that relaxes me. My bedroom is painted blue and at the end of the day after a particulary stressful day at work, I find I’m at peace with the blue walls surrounding me.
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red = anger
blue = calm
yellow = nothing
green = happy
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Yellow!
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definitely sunflowers =) the smiling flower.
dahlia / 2747 posts
before i read the post, i thought yellow too.
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Green for me!
sunflower / 332 posts
Green and light blue XD
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Yeah that is a quite common perception. I like my walls white I feel like it helps me keep a clear head, without being depressing.
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yellow always makes me so happy!
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Blue!!!
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Red.
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Yellow, green, red, blue, purple, pink, burgundy!
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sagebrush green puts me into another world
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Orange, the fun color between red and yellow. :P
rose / 960 posts
haha, when my family redid the paint job on my house, i made the color decisions and now most of the rooms in the house are either a shade of yellow or a shade orange
however, that’s only because i’m the only one in the family who really likes the color red. i did read that an overabundance of red can make a room feel smaller and cramped, and most of our furniture is too dark in color to standout in a red room, so orange and yellow it was!
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I like green. Sometimes the yellow can be too much or too dull to point it’s a gross color.
sunflower / 405 posts
I really want a yellow jacket or coat now
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I abhor the color yellow. Like, cannot stand it. If I was put into an all yellow room, I would be very, very unhappy. I much prefer the cool colors on the spectrum, though I don’t mind the other warm colors. I just really hate yellow; I don’t know why.
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love the color yellow! so bright and cheery.
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Purple makes me happy.