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The first thing I noticed is that my favorite color, brown, is equated with inexpensive for so many people. It makes me feel safe and comfortable. The next thing I noticed is that while yellow seems to be the universal color of happiness, both my answer and the survey result have colors with yellow in them chosen as least favorite color and nausea. Is there some deeper meaning in this? Does too much happiness make us nauseous? Is it that we perceive this similar but not quite right color to be an imitation of happiness that is more offensive than the color of mourning or bad luck? I chose yellow for happiness and chartreuse for nausea. On page 117 our text notes that analogous colors like these should create unity, so there seems to be some disparity in my color choices. I’m not sure that I have any particular association with chartreuse, but I did find a picture that I think expresses my thoughts, as well as one that expresses my connection between yellow and happiness.

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Survey Answers

I really couldn’t choose colors for deity or bad luck, but it does make sense to me that the survey results show people chose the same color for deity and purity, as well as the same color for bad luck and mourning. One hopes that what/who they worship is pure, and having to mourn for someone/something certainly feels unlucky. On page 115 of our text it is noted that we learn much of our emotional response to color. It makes sense then, that after seeing everyone at funerals dressed in black we would associate it with mourning, or that the color of the so many good foods would be associated with good tasting for myself and many others. I have included my answers and the overall answers to the survey below.