Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know?
Researchers at Harvard University recently released a study that makes a very interesting revelation: our concept of “threat” and the color blue, it turns out, is all relative and is not based on hard-and-fast rules. This is how the experiment worked: the researchers showed subjects a series of dots that ranged in color from very blue to very purple.
For the first 200 times, the participants saw an equal number of blue and purple dots from the color spectrum. After that, the number of blue dots gradually decreased.
By the end, the subjects’ interpretation of the colors was different:…
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