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I also find the

Submitted by Margaux Kearney on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 6:15pm.

I also find the psychological effects of color very interesting! I was surfing the internet and came upon a site that discussed color and culture. In Jan Van Eyck's painting of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, the bride is wearing a green dress as a symbol of her fertility. The color white is considered to be an inappropriate color for weddings in China as it is the color of mourning. (http://www.colormatters.com/culturematters.html) I also read that when London's Blackfriar Bridge was painted green, the suicide rate dropped 34%. Why do we associate specific colors with emotions/feelings or beliefs? Do the different light intensities or wavelengths affect our bodies in particular ways?

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