Stop On Red! The Effects of Color May Lie Deep in Evolution… | Science Blog

Stop On Red! The Effects of Color May Lie Deep in Evolution… | Science Blog: "

The play of color on emotion and behavior is intriguing, and seems to offer a lot of promising fodder for fiction writing. What strange superstitions were some of the primitives able to build based on the strength of their manipulation of the fears of their fellow people? This is actually one of the central themes of Totem, yet I didn't think to exploit the use of color on this level. I incorporated the use of various colors by the rulers in the novel as a means of showing status and manipulating their people, but I hadn't thought of making any real psychological connections. Although on the other hand, if color does display status then it must be rooted in the brain somewhere.