What Color Are You?
Color Wheel Predicts Mood
By Marrecca Fiore

In recent series of experiments, researchers found that depressed people tended to feel more “gray” than “blue,” whereas healthy or happy people tended to feel some shade of yellow.

Researchers from the University of Manchester and University Hospital South Manchester in England say they’ve developed a color chart that can be used to study the type of color that relates to a person’s state of mind.

"Colors are frequently used to describe emotions, such as being 'green with envy' or 'in the blues,’" Peter Whorwell, professor of medicine and gastroenterology at University Hospital of South Manchester, said in a statement. “Although there is a large, often anecdotal, literature on color preferences and the relationship of color to mood and emotion, there has been relatively little serious research on the subject.”

Writing in the open access medical journal, “BMC Medical Research Methodology,” researchers said the Color Wheel provides a unique way of asking patients about their condition that dispenses with the need for language.

People with anxiety and depression are most likely to use a shade of gray to represent their mental state. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medical Research Methodology describe the development of a color chart, The Manchester Color Wheel, which can be used to study people's preferred pigment in relation to their state of mind.

The researchers created a wheel of colors of various intensities, including shades of gray. They then asked a control group of non-anxious, non-depressed people to describe which color they felt most "drawn to," which was their favorite and whether any of the colors represented their current mood. When the test was repeated with anxious and depressed people, most chose the same drawn to color as the healthy participants, yellow, and the same favorite color, blue. When asked which color represented their mood, however, most chose gray, unlike the healthy subjects who typically chose a shade of yellow.

A separate group of healthy volunteers were also asked whether they associated any of the colors with positive or negative moods.

"When we used these results to separate colors into positive, negative and neutral groups, we found that depressed individuals showed a striking preference for negative colors compared to healthy controls," Whorwell added. Anxious individuals gave results intermediate to those observed in depression, with negative colors being chosen more frequently as well as positive colors being chosen less frequently than in the control test."

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