Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160721222431/@comment-14138255-20160819152836

SpiritedDreaming wrote: It's pseudo-science. Entirely up to an individual's interpretation, and everyone sees it differently depending on how they think and what they have been taught. Which is what psychology is all about - how everyone sees things differently depending on how they think and what they have been taught. Psychology is based on a person's personal experiance, but many people have the same experiences for similar reasons and patterns emerge to study as any other science (eg: a person doesn't like a thing because he experienced a thing in the past because he was a part of group x, but another person doesn't like the same thing, had a different but similar experience and is also in group x. I hope that makes sense). Granted I didn't take psychology (I took sociology, which isn't exactly the same thing, but it still borrows from it), but it still uses the scientific method. The colors thing is the most subjective of them, but can be examined through surveys. It's ingrained in most people's minds that red is synonomus with violence and/or power, while blue is synonomus with sadness for example.