Hi Gina and Taliah! As someone who teaches about color perception, I was drawn to your poster! I think your supposition that a small sample size and, in turn, low power, may have resulted in a lack of differences in stress levels between your groups is a sensible one. Another way to increase power is to increase effect size by making the experience of the groups as different as possible. Are there any ways you can think of besides or in addition to manipulating the “tone’ of the colors (warm versus cool) across groups that might make the groups’ experience more different, thereby resulting in a increased effect size and increased power?

Hi Gina and Taliah. Interesting idea for a study. Do you think if you used a different stimuli for the participants to listen to that you might have found different results? Everyone listened to an audio meditation guide which I am guessing might have made them more relaxed and might have over-powered any color affect.

I was very interested in the topic of your research. Given the use of color schemes and theory in everything from games to architecture it’s interesting to look into how these choices may impact stress levels in people. It would be interesting to investigate this sort of question in the context of stressful audio or situations as a comparison.

I really enjoyed your topic and poster! It is organized well and easy to follow along in your presentation. Your topic is something I had never heard about and I think a larger study with more significance would be very interesting! Great job!

Gina and Taliah,

I found your topic to be interesting as many colors in the media are associated with different emotions/disorders. For example, blue tends to be a color to show sadness while yellow tends to be that of happiness. I think this is a great topic; do you think results might’ve been different if using a wide array of ages such as adolescents, infants, etc? This might be interesting to look at using the different ages and different audio and situations to compare. Overall, great job!

Gina and Taliah,

This topic is rather interesting as many colors are portrayed as different emotions/ metal illnesses in the media. For example, the color blue tends to represent sadness or depression while the color yellow seems to portray happiness. A prime example would be in the movie Inside Out or even the characters of Winnie the Pooh. I think it would be interesting to research whether the colors has different affects on people of a wide variety of ages such as infants, adolescents, elderly, etc. and compare. Overall, great job!

I really enjoyed watching your video and looking at the poster board it was very interesting and informative. I have never associated colors with stress levels I have heard of color-changing mood rings but I never thought about the relation between colors and stress. Great job!

Hi Gina & Taliah!

I am currently in Sensation and Perception this semester, as well as an art class, so your poster title caught my attention as I was scrolling through the website. This is such a neat study! I wonder if your results would have differed if you asked participants to report how they were feeling before viewing the color schemes, then asking them to report on the scale how they were feeling after viewing their randomly assigned color scheme. In regards to the color presentations, were all the colors the same shades and tones? I am curious as the colors you used on your poster, especially for warm colors, are quite bright and I feel like I typically associate warm colors with more muted tones. I am interested if particular color shades and tones may influence participants feelings of stress. Thank you for sharing! Also, I love how you used the color gradients as the background for your poster headers!!

This was an extremely interesting topic when I came across it. You all really did a great job looking into it. In mediation we often find a lowering of anxiety and stress levels even during short meditation sessions. Do you believe that this could have had a negative effect on the results of your study at all? If so how would you counter this in future studies on the topic?

I really enjoyed your choice of topic! I wonder if you had been able to acquire a larger sample size if your results would have been different. On perhaps if you had them take the STAI-S test before they watched the video and listened to the audio if the results would have been different.

This topic is very interesting because I have always been interested in whether warm/cold colors had an effect on a person’s emotions. I was surprised to read that there was no significance found between warm and cold color conditions. I, personally, always found warmer colors to be more calming and relaxing. Do you think the brightness or darkness of the colors would share a different conclusion? Great presentation!