Colour Psychology: How Our Tastes Change With Stress
Did you know that people in transitional or stressful situations will often create extreme environments around themselves, according to a white paper by a professor of colour science at Leeds University. Professor Stephen Westland, produced a report into our emotional reactions to colour for our podcast sponsor Harlequin and I have to say this line stopped me in my tracks.
Regular listeners, and readers, will remember how I was drawn to yellow during the lockdowns of last year. This is a colour that I normally don’t like at all (unless in a very soft ochre form) and then, as each lockdown lifted I resorted to: “Yellow? What was I thinking?”.
Now, having spoken to Prof Westland, I wonder if that was my reaction to the stress under which we all found ourselves. Others have postulated that the rise in popularity of green is to do with a year of deprivation of nature, which also makes sense. Although, of course, green was cho…