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15Feb

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London: people with anxiety and depression are most likely to use a shade of grey to represent their mental state.

In a new study, researchers describe a colour chart, the Manchester colour Wheel, which can be used to study people’s preferred pigment in relation to their state of mind.

Peter Whorwell, professor of medicine at University Hospital Manchester, worked with a team from University of Manchester, Britain, to create an instrument that would allow people a choice of colours in response to questions. “colours are frequently used to describe emotions, such as being ‘green with envy’ or ‘in the blues’… there has been relatively little serious research on the subject,” Whorwell said.

The researchers created a wheel of colours of various intensities, including shades of grey. They then asked a control group of non-anxious, non-depressed people to describe which colour they felt most ‘drawn to’, which was their favourite and whether any of the colours represented their current mood.

When the test was repeated with anxious and depressed people, most of them chose the same ‘drawn to’ colour as the healthy participant, yellow, and the same favourite colour, blue.

When asked which colour represented their mood, however, most participants chose grey, unlike the healthy subjects who tended to pick a shade of yellow.

“When we used these results to separate colours into positive, negative and neutral groups, we found that depressed individuals showed a striking preference for negative colors compared to healthy controls, However, anxious individuals gave results intermediate to those observed in depression”, Whorwell said.

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