Psychology is successfully studying the impact of different colors on the psyche person
It helps to manage emotions, the performance of an individual or team.
Consider what it means gray color in psychology What are its main characteristics.
Characteristic and value
Gray color is obtained blending black and white.
It is faceless, without pronounced accents, boring, merges with its surroundings.
You can imagine the gray color, remembering the rainy day, when the colors fade, the sky loses its bright shade. Despite its properties, gray has many variations - from pale to dark and gloomy. Impact on the psyche depends on these shades.
Sometimes it may just not be noticed, in other circumstances, gray irritates and causes rejection. Although in general, this color neutral and is often used in business suits or room decoration where a calm atmosphere is needed.
What does he symbolize?
By choosing a color for clothing or interior decoration, it's worth thinking about his symbolism. Different peoples shades of values may vary.
In the French it is associated with sadness, in the East - humiliation, meanness, anger, in Europe - the color of high society, some African tribes associate it with ashes, for Christians gray is a detachment from joys and worldly.
We wear gray when we are in mourning, sadness, we want to show our isolation from the world, to set personal boundaries. This is the color of humility and sorrow.
Properties
Gray has many shades.
If a neutral color does not cause any emotions, then ashen is capable wake up sadness and depression.
Gray is used to neutralize and smooth other, brighter colors. If you use only red, then the nervous system is quickly overexcited, but if you add gray shades, the effect will be softer.
Light gray is capable visually enlarge a small room, while dark shades act more oppressively, reducing the perception of space.
Gray is neutral, it is a kind of border between colors, faceless, but necessary, without it you can’t really feel other colors.
Gray psychology:
What is used in advertising?
In advertising, gray is often used as a background. Apply it to display information technology, it associated with scientific progress.
Emphasizes the elite of the product. This is especially true of silver tint. Causes a sense of reliability, speaks about the quality of the proposed product.
Design studios often use interiors with a gray presence as advertising. it color real estate, city, stability.
Physiological and psychological effects on health
Gray color does not cause violent and vivid emotions.
However, he is able to oppress, especially with its excess.
If a person is initially in a sad, depressed mood, then the presence of gray will further aggravate the condition.
It symbolizes maturitytherefore, it is able to relieve tension in the office. This is a strict color, it is used in state institutions.
Light gray soothes, adjusts to contacts. It has a beneficial effect on the activity of the nervous system, especially people of choleric temperament.
Dark gray is more severe, depresses and inhibits. Not recommended excess gray in the children's rooms.
If a person is prone to phobias, unsure of himself, then the gray color also adversely affects him.
The main emotions that it causes - sadness, moderation, calm, brakes brain activity.
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What can be said about a man who loves gray?
Gray lovers look faceless externally.
Often it is preferred by aged people depressed, lonely natures who want to be invisible and hide from others.
Such a person seeks peace and does not like external interference and contacts with other people.
There is no risk appetite., the amateur of gray is inclined to think for a long time, to look for logic, to deduce a more acceptable and accurate solution to the problem.
Such people quite good analyststherefore, they can often be found among accountants, economists, and teachers. There is ambition and modesty, avoiding public speaking and attracting attention.
The character is calm, bright emotions are rarely experienced and even afraid of them. There are high moral principles and requirements for other people.
At the same time, life remains quite gray, not enough energy, emotional charge.
What does aversion to color mean?
Those who do not like gray, strive as much as possible. more fully diversify your life.
They prefer bright colors, adventures.
In communication, they want to either win or lose, but neutral and uncertain position they do not like.
In the character can be observed impulsiveness, levity. Those who deny this color are afraid to be bypassed, defeated, success, contact with other people, achievements is important for him.
They do not like "gray" and faceless people, avoid them and do not understand, considering the secretive and uninteresting.
Who can be recommended to use?
Gray combines well with many other colors.
In clothes
Especially well with white, black, purple, diluting sharp shades.
It is suitable for a business suit. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile to diversify it, introducing brighter elements and accessories - a tie, a bracelet, a small brooch.
Do not dress completely in gray. Blouse, shirt, sweater should be a different, more positive shade. Color is often used in uniforms, as an underscore of business orientation, responsibility, reliability.
Gray is suitable for choleric persons, if you need a little smooth out the explosive temperament.
It is not recommended to melancholicdespite their desire to use this color in clothes.
In them, it depresses the nervous system even more. For sanguine and phlegmatic has a neutral effect.
How to choose a shade of gray for yourself? Find out from the video:
In the interior
In interior design gray - indispensable element. Kitchen surfaces look good with him. The refrigerator of a steel shade looks stylishly and richly.
In the living room or bedroom, you can hang curtains of a rich gray color. They are combined with white and black furniture.
If it is necessary to make a room visually more spacious, then a light gray shade is taken, it acts more gently than white, does not blind and causes a feeling of stability.
In the rooms where severity is required, impact on people, apply darker, deep shades of gray. However, it should be remembered that it affects not only visitors, but also the employees themselves.
Will fit people of intellectual work, with the proviso that it is impossible to make an interior only of this color, otherwise, over time, fatigue and depression of the nervous system will occur.
Remember that it is impossible to allow an oversupply of this color in the interior and be sure to dilute it with more joyful shades - green, yellow, red.
Gray color in the interior:
Negative characteristic in psychology
Main negative qualitiescharacterizing gray shades:
- fear of contact;
- sadness, sadness, depression;
- melancholy;
- fear of loss;
- loneliness;
- desire to hide from the outside world;
- boredom;
- lethargy;
- unwillingness to let new events into life;
- facelessness.
Despite the presence of negative characteristics in gray, it is still indispensable and allows you to dilute brighter colors.
the main thing - reasonable use in small quantities.
