Imagine yourself as a graphic designer for New Age musician Enya, tasked with creating her next album cover. Which two or three colors from the grid below do you think would “go best” with her music?

Would they be the same ones you’d pick for an album cover or music video for the heavy metal band Metallica? Probably not. For years, my collaborators and I have been studying music-to-color ...

Colors are thought to carry emotional meaning. Even more, many agree that color impacts us in the way we think and feel. We can find many sources that tell us to paint our bedroom walls in blues and ...

DEAR BONNIE: I have been wondering about the colors I choose to wear and if they can bring my mood down. I wear black a lot to look thinner but am I bringing in bad energy? Do colors affect all of us ...

The relationship between colour and emotion perception forms a multifaceted domain that bridges cognitive science, psychology and visual art. Research in this area explores how various colour ...

“When you do things from your soul,” writes Rumi, “you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” The river may be boisterous, with frothy waters surging fervently through its receding banks, shouting at the ...

Discovering the subtle role of reddish tints in unseen facial expressions A research team in the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory and Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit of the Department of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The effects of color on ...

Throughout his prolific career, Italian-American painter Osvaldo Mariscotti has remained dedicated to the interaction of form and color. His recent body of work, Seasons—live now on Artnet’s Buy Now ...

Emotional appeals are a common fundraising advertising strategy, and colors can tap into potential donors' feelings of generosity and compassion. Marketing researchers have studied human reactions to ...