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COLOR ME BLUE: What color is your personality?

7/29/2022

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Perhaps it is human nature that compels us to constantly endeavor to classify something as complex and fluid as human personality. The exercise is probably pointless and  even impossible — but that doesn't stop us from trying.

​As TV’s brainyac Sheldon Cooper would say, “It’s all poppycock.” Or is it?

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Image Source: color-meanings.com/meanings-of-favorite-colors/
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PICK A COLOR, ANY COLOR
Among the many “personality tests”, there are those which test the colors you are drawn to, claiming those colors say a lot about your personality.Sure, colors are all around us ‒ even those we can’t see with our eyes ‒ but do they influence our decisions? Some of them, yes, such as the clothing we select or the paint for the outside of the house. Undoubtedly many others. Does it influence our outlook on life or the big ticket, life-altering decisions?

​I shake my head. “I rather doubt it!” 
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Of course, I’m making allowances for color affecting an expensive purchase ‒ a yellow Lamborghini, maybe ‒ and then not being able to pay for it, having to file bankruptcy thus losing the car as well as your spouse and family, becoming homeless and having to live on the street where you start drinking and taking drugs and… but I digress. I guess it’s possible.

In fact, there are several seriously-scientific systems of personality profiling by color, including: “True Colors” ‒ created by Don Lowery in 1978 to categorize at-risk-youth ‒ “Strong Interest Inventory” (SII), and the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS). All are about the same in accuracy. Although no solid scientific evidence validates the relationship between color and personality, there are some globally-accepted principles and phenomena in the field of psychology. For example, there’s a certain consensus when it comes to affirming that the colors a person prefers reflect, to some extent, their psychophysical and cognitive state.

WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS, ANYWAY?
Little is written about where the idea of connecting colors to personality came from. Mulling over what is available, it suggested to me that since ancient Greece and Rome, their scientists and philosophers were aware of what we know now is a very low level of electricity ‒ i.e. an electromagnetic field – generated by human beings.

We also know now that it is a very weak field and can’t be seen by the naked eye. Most of the source claim in cannot be photographed either. Currently, for biomedical purposes, scientists are working on a  technique for conducting measurements of these fields inside the human body by applying a weak electric field at a radio frequency (RF).​

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Many ancient systems of medicine and philosophies throughout the world believe that this field is an “aura” made up of various layers of energy (which influence overall health), and there have always been those people who claim they can see these electric fields as colors.

​Interestingly, in Latin and Ancient Greek “aura" means wind, breeze, or breath. It was used in Middle English to mean "gentle breeze". Perhaps it was perceived as a disturbance in the "Force"?

I’m sticking my neck out (being substantially ignorant in the fields of electromagnetic forces and metaphysics) and suggesting that perhaps some of these people are true “synesthetes” with Grapheme or some other form of Color Synesthesia, which I understand is scientifically confirmed as the most one of the most common forms of synesthesia.

For a person with this form of synesthesia, exposure to metaphysical ideas, 
philosophies, medial practices, and religions which believe in auras could easily convince such an individual they are seeing just that.

I have to mention that the concept of auras was popularized in the early 1900s by Charles Webster Leadbeater (great name for a fictitious character), a former priest of the Church of England and a member of the mystic Theosophical Society. He had studied theosophy in India, and believed he had the capacity to use his clairvoyant powers to make scientific investigations.

COMPARISONS
How the colors of auras and chakras got translated into personality characteristics is still a little fuzzy. However, there are many believers, scientists, researchers, and educators who pursue this line of thinking. I made a comparison chart of several published analyses. Some are very close, some not so much.
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COLORS          exploringyourmind.com/                  powerofpositivity.com/                learning-mind.com/personality-color 
RED                  Willpower, ambition, energy     Dominant, fiery, passionate     Optimistic, live life to fullest,                                                                                        ambitious, confident, goals      ambitious, intense, strong willed  
BLUE                Fixed principles & values          Romantic, kind, idealist             Tradition, order, stability, organ-                                                                                 sincere, sympathetic                  ized, principled, conservative
YELLOW           Dreamy, perfectionist               Bubbly, chipper, optimistic,       Warm, critical thinker, problem
                                                                              positive, happy                            solver, good communicator
GREEN             Security,  Recognition              Sensitive, grounded, drawn        Love nature, friends, family
                                                                              to nature, curious, introvert       loyal, balanced, need space
ORANGE          Interrelate, be with others         Playful, childlike, hi energy,        Gregarious, free spirit, not too
                                                                              active, giver, like spotlight           responsible, non-judgmental 
BROWN            Simple life, strong bonds          NA                                                 Dependable, supportive, like
                                                                                                                                    simplicity, not extravagant
BLACK             Willpower, independence          NA                                                   A rebel, sophistocated
WHITE              Simplicity, openness, purity      NA                                                 Confident, Organized, high
​                                                                                                                                    standards, no compromise
PURPLE           NA                                               Sensitive, psychic, creative        Unconventional, creative, 
​                                                                              emotional, artist, dreamer          spiritual, dance to own beat   
GREY               NA                                               NA                                                  Practical, hard-working, can
                                                                                                                                    lack confidence & energy
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color-meanings.com/find-symbolic-meanings-of-your-favorite-colors/
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TAKE AWAYS
● Science has proved that certain colors are soothing or agitating to people, particularly in terms of room color. Some colors can make items seem more appealing than other colors.

● Most people have a favorite color, or colors.

● Colors can affect certain decisions humans make, particularly when it comes to buyIng things.

● Science has proved human bodies do generate low intensity magnetic fields, but they can’t been seen or photographed.

● Current statistics show that only four percent of the population has synesthesia, but most of those are color-related forms.

For me, that’s not enough to convince me that personalities have “colors” or even that favorite colors can show a lot about your personality. I have a different “favorite color” depending on what I’m looking at. I love red and wear red in clothing often. I might even buy a red car if it were one of those on the lot.  I would never paint a room or the outside of my house red. Does that make me ambitious and passionate? Maybe when I wear red.


JUST SAYIN’ !

Sources:https://www.powerofpositivity.com/what-is-your-personality-color/#:~:text=1%20Yellow.%20If%20you%20have%20a%20yellow%20personality,time%20alone.%204%20Green.%20...%205%20Blue.%20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Colors_(personality)
ttps://www.exponenthr.com/blog/the-four-colors-of-personality/
https://thecolorofmypersonality.com/
http://thescienceexplorer.com/brain-and-body/heres-personality-test-actual-scientific-basis
https://www.learning-mind.com/personality-color-favorite-color/
https://chipolo.net/en/blogs/the-importance-of-colors-in-our-life
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3743993/
https://exploringyourmind.com/how-do-color-and-personality-relate-to-each-other/
https://www.higgypop.com/news/seeing-auras/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-causes-auras-brainstorms/
https://www.learning-mind.com/do-auras-exist-science-human-aura/
https://emfharmonized.com/do-humans-have-electromagnetic-fields/
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is-the-human-a-electromagnetic-field
https://www.color-meanings.com/find-symbolic-meanings-of-your-favorite-colors/
https://www.davidvinuales.com/2020/06/12/personalities-and-colors-knowing-better-the-people-around-you/#:~:text=Each%20personality%20is%20represented%20by%20a%20color%3A%20red%2C,Red%20are%20extrovert%20thinkers.%20Yellow%20are%20extrovert%20feelers.https://www.davidvinuales.com/2020/06/12/personalities-and-colors-knowing-better-the-people-around-you/#:~:text=Each%20personality%20is%20represented%20by%20a%20color%3A%20red%2C,Red%20are%20extrovert%20thinkers.%20Yellow%20are%20extrovert%20feelers.http://www.biofieldglobal.org/what-is-human-aura.html#:~:text=In%20scientific%20research%20we%20have%20found%20that%20the,to%20the%20level%20of%20health%20of%20the%20person.
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/can-modern-science-explain-the-aura-around-people.597338/#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20scientific%20evidence%20that%20aura%27s%20exist.,plausible%20explanation%20for%20their%20mechanism%20ever%20been%20proposed.
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Brody Nienow link
8/3/2022 02:38:24 am

You will discover the qualities and characteristics of your personality and that of the people you know based on the color your and their favorite color.

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