Creation Moment 9/28/2015 - Blue & YOU

"The world might seem a little grayer than usual when we're down in the dumps and we often talk about "feeling blue" -- new research suggests that the associations we make between emotion and color go beyond mere metaphor. The results of two studies indicate that feeling sadness may actually change how we perceive color. Specifically, researchers found that participants who were induced to feel sad were less accurate in identifying colors on the blue-yellow axis than those who were led to feel amused or emotionally neutral.
The research is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
"Our results show that mood and emotion can affect how we see the world around us," says psychology researcher Christopher Thorstenson..."Our work advances the study of perception by showing that sadness specifically impairs basic visual processes that are involved in perceiving color."
Previous studies have shown that emotion can influence various visual processes, and some work has even indicated a link between depressed mood and reduced sensitivity to visual contrast.
 ....results showed that participants who watched the sadness video clip were less accurate in identifying colors than participants who watched the amusing clip, but only for color patches that were on the blue-yellow axis. They showed no difference in accuracy for colors on the red-green axis.
Thorstenson points out that this research charts new territory, and that follow-up studies are essential to fully understanding the relationship between emotion and color perception:"
ScienceDaily

....for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:

Psalm 139:14

YOU are a delicately wired being

and worth dying for by your CREATOR.

Ye are bought with a price;

1 Corinthians 7:23