Color actually affects test scores? This is the best color for the walls of your child's study room

At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the red of the sports icons, the yellow of the ribbons of the award bouquets, the blue of the podium, the white of the major stadiums, etc., are all designed and changed according to the color system released by the Beijing Winter Olympics. The red of the sunset, the yellow of the spring, the blue of the sky, the gray of the Great Wall, the white of the snow, each color can be matched with a traditional Chinese color.

Color system for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics Source: People's Daily

Color psychology has found that colors can affect people's emotions and behaviors. We might as well learn a little about color science to cleverly inspire fighting spirit, mobilize positive emotions, and promote physical and mental health.

Warm colors brighten your mood

Color psychology research has found that colors can make people feel differently and affect people's psychology. Cool colors and warm colors give people completely different feelings.

Warm colors such as yellow, orange or red are motivating, but too much of them can make people angry and bored. If a child is easily tired and lacks passion, you can insert some warm colors in the room to subconsciously brighten his mood. I once visited a school where the principal, under the advice of a psychologist, led the children to repaint the walls, changing the dark and dirty walls to appropriately add bright colors to the clean white. After that, the students' bad behavior improved greatly.

Many teams like to add red or orange elements to their uniforms, because red and orange stimulate the offensiveness of athletes and make them energetic. Therefore, it is very suitable to wear orange sportswear when exercising.

Fast food restaurants also like to use red and orange. Have you noticed that the walls and tables and chairs of many fast food restaurants are bright red or bright orange? Because the highly saturated red and orange will give people a psychological illusion that time is passing very quickly, which will affect people's eating speed. In this way, the restaurant can increase the turnover rate. On the contrary, it is not appropriate to use large areas of red and orange in learning occasions.

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How to use warm colors in the family? Psychologist Jin Yunrong suggested that if the child has a separate study room, the most suitable color for the study wall is light yellow. If the child's study room is a corner of the bedroom or living room, then the lampshade on the desk and the chair back can be set to light yellow, or a light yellow painting can be hung on the wall, which can bring in energy as bright as the sun.

Colors can also affect people's appetite. For example, red plates will make you eat less, while white plates will make you eat more. Yellow and orange foods make people feel delicious. For example, fast food restaurants use this method in their fried chicken posters, adding some orange to the advertising pictures to stimulate people's appetite. We can use orange warm light in our kitchens to make children eat more unconsciously.

Cool colors make people relax and calm

Cool colors give people a sense of calmness. For example, dark blue is the first choice for PPT business templates, and many primary and secondary school uniforms also prefer dark blue. It is very suitable to paint a wall in the bedroom in dark blue, which makes people relax and promotes sleep. Light blue can express friendliness and is suitable for conference rooms and reading rooms. Reading or holding creative meetings in a sky-like blue environment can make people think more actively and not feel that time is long.

Green reminds people of the colors of nature. Placing some green plants on the windowsill can relieve visual fatigue. It was once popular in some schools to paint the lower half of the wall with dark green paint. Perhaps the original intention was to protect the white wall, but it unconsciously played a role in calming people's hearts.

Purple is a mixture of red and blue, which makes people relax and calm while also encouraging and potentially stimulating. In many cultural backgrounds, purple is also assumed to be a noble color. For example, cosmetics with purple packaging imply better quality and higher prices. Tsinghua University has the famous Tsinghua Purple, and its affiliated primary and secondary school uniforms also use this purple.

The color used in Tsinghua University's school emblem is "Tsinghua Purple".

Many schools have more than one set of uniforms. They often choose black uniforms for formal occasions such as graduation ceremonies to look solemn. Wearing black can also boost students' confidence when they attend formal interviews.

Color should be harmonious with the environment

Painter Kang Dingsi believes that every color can be both warm and cold. The feeling it gives depends on the color's saturation and the surrounding environment and the combination with each other. Inappropriate colors are like noise, making children upset, while harmonious and comfortable colors can make people relax and calm or inspire enthusiasm.

Research has found that color can affect test scores. For example, if a test paper is presented to test takers in red and blue, the red group will score lower than the blue group because red makes people more likely to avoid it. However, if the test paper is changed to a detail-oriented task, then the red paper will help improve the score. Therefore, it is best not to use a red pen for all notes. Important parts that require warnings can be written in red.

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A large amount of saturated colors can easily make people excited, but it can also cause visual fatigue. There are two children-themed bookstores in Beijing. One of them uses a lot of strong red, yellow, blue, and green in both the bookshelf area and the game area. The other bookstore mainly uses soft colors, and only uses a rainbow strip on the wall to guide the pace forward. The two bookstores are not far apart, and the area of ​​the former is much larger than the latter, but it is obvious that children do not want to stay in the first bookstore. Now the first bookstore has closed down, but the other bookstore has been rated as the most beautiful bookstore. Although there are many reasons that determine the rise and fall of bookstores, color as an important factor affecting reading cannot be ignored.

The colors of different environments can affect people's feelings, different colors of food can affect people's appetite, and different clothes can affect other people's attention. Colors are also affected by different social cultures, and of course, individual feelings and personal preferences. Only by understanding our culture and our children can we skillfully use colors to influence people. The colors in the family environment should be harmonious and unified. The personal needs of children should not be ignored. They should be allowed to express their opinions according to their personality characteristics.

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Of course, we can also understand a child's needs through the colors he chooses. When using painting for psychotherapy, psychologists found that children who like to use strong red colors are eager to get their parents' attention, while children who tend to use large areas of black are emotionally repressed and may have been treated violently.

Source: Popular Science Times

Author: Li Zhengrong

Editor: Mao Mengnan

Review: Wang Fei

Final judge: Chen Lei