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Simulated Studies of Color, Arousal, and Comfort

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Color psychology is applied all the time in our everyday environments, in the form of paint and graphics both outdoors and indoors, and also in the form of artificially lit spaces. Are the effects of color on the human organism so extreme that our physical and mental hygiene depends on them? Could lack of color in our internal and external spaces not only cause ugliness and boredom but also be responsible for physiological discomfort or stress reactions? The aim of the present chapter is to review the research on color in three areas that have caused considerable confusion during the last 50 years. Most of this research has been carried out in simulated situations, some of which seem to have been barren of any contact with reality.

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  1. Environmental Psychology Unit, School of Architecture, Lund Institute of Technology, Box 118, S-221 00, Lund, Sweden

    Rikard Küller

  2. Architectural Psychology Unit, School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX3 OBP, England

    Byron Mikellides

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  1. College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA

    Robert W. Marans

  2. School of Social Ecology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California, 92717, USA

    Daniel Stokols

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Küller, R., Mikellides, B. (1993). Simulated Studies of Color, Arousal, and Comfort. In: Marans, R.W., Stokols, D. (eds) Environmental Simulation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1140-7_7

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