Mad About The House by Kate Watson-Smyth

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Colour Psychology: How Our Tastes Change With Stress

Colour Psychology: How Our Tastes Change With Stress

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Jun 24, 2021
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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.

wall painted in blazer by farrow and ball at madaboutthehouse.com
wall painted in blazer by farrow and ball at madaboutthehouse.com

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…

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