COLOUR PSYCHOLOGY

COLOUR PSYCHOLOGY

Many people think that colour is just a matter of how things look but they are mistaken. Colours of environment affect our behavior and mood, and colour psychology is a subfield, which focuses on the link between colour and mood/behavior. Colours are also used to express feelings. There is some meanings of colours:

• Black is the colour of authority and power. It also can mean submission (for example, we could remember priest, who submit to God) or evel.
• White is light, neutral and goes with everything. It symbolizes innocence, purity, trust and strenght.
• Red is the colour, which attracts attention. It stimulates a faster heartbeat and breathing. Red also is related with danger, action and love.
• Blue is the opposite colour of red. It can be cold and depresing but blue also means peace and calm. It is recommended for people, who are going to job interviews because it symbolizes loyalty.
• Green symbolizes nature. It is calming, refreshing, relaxing colour and it is the main reason why hospitals often use green.
• Yellow symbolizes freedom and openness. It helps to enhance concentration and speed matabolism.
• Brown is the opposite colour of black. It is the colour of earth and may be related with warm and weakness.

As we see, colours could be a reason of our health, it could help to create our image and mood.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

When we speak about psychology, everyone has it's image what psychology is. It could encompass from the biological basis of behavior till relationships between people and their physical environment or studies of how people thoughts, feelings and actions are affected by others. With reference to the diversy of areas, which psychology examines, it has a number of subfields, such as bahavioral neurosience, cognitive psychology, sross-cultural psychology, educational psychology, social psychology, sport psychology and ect. The field, which has attracted my attention mostly, was social psychology. Human behavior is often governed by social norms, which are the main for. Social psychologists study what we think about ourselves and each other, how we influence each other and communicate. It explains people behavior, how our convictions and attitudes are developed, what are relationships between our thinking and behavior, what encourage us to help for other people or to fall in love. All these things are very intesting for me. Other reason why I would like to study social psychology is the experience with cripples and drunkards. I see that they need help and I would be happy, if I hade an opportunity to help them.

WHY HAVE I CHOSEN PHYCHOLOGY?

When we were children, everyone of us had a desire, who we want to be in the future. Phychology was not a speciality about which I dreamed in my childhood but all the time I knew that I do not want to sit in the office and to work by computer. Furthermore, when you meet a lot of people, who have their problems and ask for the suggestion, when you see alcoholics, who want to stop drinking and begin a new life, when you see children, who suffer violence in their families and do not have anybody to talk with them, a desire to help for them comes naturally. All these things were the main reason why I chose studies of phychology. If I had not entered to this speciality, I would have been tried to study sociology, social science or teology. I wish all young people, who do not know what they want to do, would find their own way.