Does

color
Affect
Mood?
TURNER 6.1 BSS

Question:
Does color effect mood?

Abstract
Do you want to feel more peaceful, depressed, or
angry? Well I have the solution for you. Look
through my colored glasses. I wanted to find out if
color changed peoples mood. That was tested by
making people wear different colored glasses each
for 5 minutes. My hypothesis states that if people
are exposed to different colors, then they will be in
different moods according to the color. The
experimental results supported my hypothesis that
people would be in different moods according to the
color.

Hypothesis
If people are exposed to
different colors, then they
will be in different moods
according to the color.

Materials
5 pairs of Safety goggles
5 different colored bottles of
transparent glass paint
A pencil/pen
144 mood surveys
Timer
24 subjects.

Procedure

Print copies of the survey

Get pens/pencils
Get five pairs of safety goggles
Get transparent glass paint (green, blue, pink, yellow, and purple)
Paint the goggles with the glass paint
Let them dry overnight
Obtain subjects
Have subject fill out survey
Set a timer for five minuets
Put green glasses on subject for five minutes
Have subjects fill out survey
Set a timer for 5 minuets
Put the pink glasses on subject for 5 minuets
Have subject fill out survey
Set a timer for 5 minuets
Put the blue glasses on subject for five minuets
Have subjects fill out survey
Set a timer for 5 minuets
Put the purple glasses on subject for five minuets
Have subjects fill out survey
Set a timer for 5 minuets
Put the yellow glasses on subject for five minutes
Have subject fill out survey
Repeat steps 8-23 for the remaining subjects

Procedure
Independent Variable the
color of the glasses
Dependent Variable the
mood that the subjects are
in
Constant the subjects

Results
Moods after Colors (on a scale of 1 to 10)
Before
any
colors

Pink

Blue

Yellow

Green

Purple

8.8

7.6

8.2

8.4

9.0

8.2

Graph: Moods 1-10

1
0
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Before

Pink

Blue

Yellow

Green

Conclusion
As stated in my hypothesis, I believe that if people
are exposed to different colors, then they will be in
different moods according to the color. Everything
went just as planned. My hypothesis was supported
because peoples moods changed after they had
the glasses on. There were no unusual events. Next
time I would try to make all the glasses with the
same amount of transparency, and make all the
people sit down and not talk, making the
experiment more accurate.

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