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Color and Emotion

Color and Emotion

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Colin Wright
Mar 10, 2022
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Though seemingly simple, our perceptual responses to colors can be fascinatingly complex.

In essence, colors are created when light hits the light-receptors in our eyes.

Light has a spectrum (different wavelengths) that is perceived as different colors by our receptors, and light bouncing off physical objects (a plant, a water droplet, a sidewalk) are als…

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