Does the colour of a person's eyes change the way they perceive the world?

Question

Is the information arriving at the brain different depending on the colour of the eye and does that mean perception is all conventions? I have often noticed that I tend to prefer people as friends who have my eye colour, although in a Freudian tradition I should perhaps be looking for the other? Does eye colour influence the judgement of visual beauty? Is there a sociology of eye colour? Eye colour chauvinism? Does trying to avoid thinking in essentialist patterns mean one should cling as closely as possible to established conventions? Do this kind of essentialism and enlightened thought contradict each other? Are coloured contact lenses meaningful? Do blind people direct their sympathy differently from people who can see?

Answer 1

There is no way to know whether changing the color of a person's eyes will change their perception. You cannot create an experiment in which you can change the color of a person's eyes, so no way to test.

2nd, you don't see the color of your own eyes, so if it did change you wouldn't notice it.

Answer 2

Actually it's a stupid question and you haven't asked it very well either. You can't seem to decide who the active participants are - the people who belong to the coloured eyes or those that perceive them. And what the h**l is essentialism? You sound like a w@nker.

Answer 3

Actually, it is highly unlikely that eye color effects the information arriving to the brain enough to be significant.  Eye color does serve a purspose though.  It filters light as it enters the eye.  Those that are descendants from more equatorial locations where there is quite a bit more light have very dark eyes.  The brown color filters out the light.  They do have a harder time seeing in the dark in more northern lattitudes (comparitively).  However, those whose descendents come from Northern Europe, for example, often have much lighter eyes.  There is less light, and in places like Britain there is a lot more fog and rain diminishing light further.  The eye has to allow more light in.  So, there isn't as much pigment and their eyes are often blue.  People with blue eyes often have a harder time with bright sunlight, but can see in fog and in the dark better.

Now, I have to admit that I don't know why they aren't all just shades of brown or blue.  I don't think any of the researchers really understand there is such a large variation of colors.  I know that there is blue, brown, green, hazel, grey, purple and other colored irises.

Now, I wouldn't also be surprised if some of the social aspects that you listed are correlated to eye color.  This would simply be due to culture however.  Obviously, there are common characteristics amoung people of a certain race in a certain location when compared on the world scale.  However, in these models you can often find that they never fit 100% of the time.  There is always a fly in the ointment.

Answer 4

Only if you have rose-coloured eyes...

Answer 5

My eye doctor told me that no person knows exactly how another person sees.  If eye color affects sight in some way, we don't know.

Answer 6

Yes.  Eyes turn 'green' with envy.

Philosopher's eyes are all brown from the bullsheet shining through.

Any body who's nickname is 'sheepdog' has one brown eye and one blue eye.

Answer 7

You have very intelligently asked probably the stupidest question I've ever read on this forum.  No doubt there is eye color sociology and eye color chauvinism in some parts of the world, but the color of the eye could only effect the *perception* of those who have been ridiculed or ostracized for their eye color.  And that would be the perceptual problem of those person's brains, not their eyes.

Answer 8

As a healthcare provider the answer is :NO. The only study I have read on 'eyes' is that the pupil tends to constrict when someone lies. And the direction people look (down and left, or up and right, for example) can tell you some things about how they are thinking at the time. You see through the pupil which is totally unaffected by the color of the iris. Colored contact lenses are ususally not colored over the pupil area. Blind people tend to use other senses to evaluate prople other than what can be collected through sight (tone of voice, ect ). Your other questions, I leave to others.