Does the color of a room affect human behavior?

Question

I want to do this for my project but I can't think of how I could test something like this, can you give me any ideas?

Answer 1

If the rooms in your house are many different colors maybe you should use a family member to experiment in that room for maybe 1 day or 2. In my opinion I think it could effect someomes behavior perhaps based on the color. Like red and black.

Answer 2

im sure the color of a room can definatly affect human behavior. take in schools. If you have a plain white room, no posters, no pictures, even high school kids get bored. they want to fall asleep. i had a teacher who painted a gaint peace sign on her wall. along with the strawberry from across the universe. and a bunch of people got to pu their handorint on the wall. everyone loved the teacher, the room, and they wanted to be in there. then the teacher left the school. the school painted overe the beautiful walls with white. now everyone hates the room.

also, my art teacher talked one day about yellow walls and how they can be unsettteling.

so i suppose what you could do for your science experiment project is find different colored rooms and put some people in them and let them socalize, talk, and you observe through a window or something.

if the room looks like a doctors office with chairs lining the walls, people will probably sit and  be fairly quiet. but if you have something like a black room, glow in the dark paint splatters, and a disco ball, hmmm, what do you think people will do?  

Answer 3

The color of a room is shown to greatly impact the human mood. THere are tests I read about in my psychology class where having white hospital rooms or white rooms for babies lead to slower healing or development than brightly colored, visually appealing rooms.