Keke Weathers
Dr.Sarthou
Composition II
November 6, 2015
Emotions, Emotions, Emotions When you w3ake up in the morning, what are some of the things you do before heading out of the door? Most people look at the weather before they leave home .The weather sets the mood for the day. It determines what a person is going to wear and even a person’s attitude for the day. For example, if it is fall time and rainy out, a person might wear rain boots and a sweater. Now think of the colors of fall; orange, brown, yellow and red, and the colors of the leaves. The color brown can make one feel cozy, snug, and safe. Orange is associated with stimulation, warmth, and happiness. Thanksgiving is during the fall season and it is a time to stuff your face, to be surrounded by family, and to be thankful. And these colors help to set the vibe. Everyone is cheerful , full of laughter, and hungry. These feelings are asscosiated with the color yellow. Red symbolizes love and life and is mainly what people are thankful for on thanksgiving. Now back to the wet and slippery situation. When it is dark and stormy outside people tend to feel drowsy, sleepy, or even sad. Spring time gets the most rain typically in the western hemisphere. Spring time is one of the most crucial seasons for suicide. In the U.S. at least 30,000 people commit suicide each year. The suicide rates worldwide outweigh deaths involving accidents and homocides combined. IT is a popular belief that suicided rates peak during the spring. According the CDC almost 40,000 deaths in 2011 where suicides. That is aproxamatley 734 suicide deaths each week. Grady Dixon, Ph.D and a biometerorologist at Mississippi state university states that depressed people are able to be motivated to take action in the spring. He also reflects on one of the oldest therios; depressed people in the winter time don’t bounce back in the spring. They feel like the new season has came, but nothing about them has changed. This is the feelings that carry over and they do not get rid of during the winter. They feel feeling lonley, imcomplete, and unworthy of life and by the spring time all this pressure is building up and they have the courage to commit suicide. Another key point I want to bring to attention is the visual outside. When it is raining, cold, and dark for weeks people tend to stay in the house more. The sky is always drewy and grey. The color grey is assocated with a timeless sad and lonely mood. Epecuially a dull smokey grey color and being sorrunded by that color with no sunlight can damage the spirit. It make a person feel like they are useless and they want to kill themselves. Life is sometimes full of dullness in the spring. A person did not meet requirments for the new years and the weather is making it ten times worse; a recipe for suicide. I agree that colors and the weather have a direct correlation to a person’s emtions and behaviors. I beilve that there is enough psychological evidence and facts to prove this calim. Not only through reaserch but also through observing my enviromrent and the people around my everyday life. These factors can differ among the people. The age groups, gender and ethical background vary. Perception plays a big role in this argument. People may think differently and color psychology and art therapy are real ongoing studies and methods. Color psychology is basically the study of hues as a determinant of human behavior. Clolr often influences perceptions that are not noticiable like the taste of certain foods. Hues can also be used in medication to help encourage how a person feels after taking the percribed medication But this is not always true. Orange pills are normally used as stimulants. Like I mentioned earlier the color orange is coneected with stimulatition and energy. The color of the medication might help a person think they are feeling better. Another thing I noticed is how most reasturants are in the colors red yellow and blue. For example Mcdonalds , sonic, wendys, target, and etc. have logos ment to get your attwention. These colrs are there to try and trigger the feeling of being hungry, comfortable, excited, and calm. All these colros and emtoins make a person want to buy things I would assume from my observation. Today most companies in marketing and adevertiving use color psychology all the time to gain costumers. Mcdonanlds has went from more vibrant colors to more realaxed and soft colros to make costumers stay longer on free wi-fi. The costumers will sit in the café` type setting and buy more food from them. Big companies like this heavuily invest their money on advertising and visual perception. Color is consistenly use in everday life to make people feel a certain way. Another technique that most psyhcarticst may use is called art therapy. Art theraphy is a form of psychotherapy involving the encouragement of free self-expression through painting, drawing , or modeling, used as a remedial activtyor aid to diagnosis.This method may be more commonly with children who suffer from psychological prombles. I did a study of my own something lik an SRS or simple random sample. I surveyed random people on rust college campus. I asked what was there favorite color or did they like the color they where waering on that day. Then I asked them when they see that certain color what does it make you think off? How does it make you feel? If they where in a room painted in one color how would they feel? Does a certain color remind you of a specific time of the year or part event in your life? This part is about how a person perceives things and how their own life experinceas come into play.