Do you believe that favorite color reflects personality?

No.

Probably not. People can interpret the same color ten different ways. Red can be bubbly or hot and sexy, black can be sophisticated or goth, beige can be boring or classy.

I remember when I launched the cosmetic brand Tony and Tina their schtick was we are atrracted to the color we need associated with chakra. I think blue meant you probably suffered from headaches, and blue was supposed to calm the nervous system and something else, so headache sufferers naturally would go towards blue. That was the idea anyway.

My dad likes blue because he is red green colorblind and blue is one of the colors he can see.

No, but I do believe that overall attitude in life is influenced by personality.
Extroverts tend to be more optimistic than introverts most of the time.

It is possible that a person’s personality influences their favorite color. Color symbolism, however, is very vague.

For example, black can be sadness/mourning, or it could be fashionable, professional, and complex. Blue can be both sad and happy. Red could be hate, love, passion, anger. Almost any color can be considered “flowery.”

Even if personality affects favorite color, it is not going to be reversible (so it’s not possible to determine personality from the favorite color).

I do not know about personality but it certainly can reflect a mood and sometime even set one.

No.

In western cultreus the colors black and white seem pretty, eh, cut and dry, I suppose, to avoid the idoim.
But interestingly enough, in Japan, black is the color of life, and white is the color of death. So any corelation is likely more cultural than biological.

My Sikh friend wore a red wedding dress.

No, color doesn’t reflect personality at all. It reflects taste and preference.

My neighbour’s favourite colour is green & he does bear a striking resemblance to Shrek, so…

@ucme gets the British Language prize for using three British spellings (ou instead of o) in consecutive words. @ucme must have thought hard to achieve that.

We tark proper inglish us man like.

@elbanditoroso: @ucme is a Brit. and probably wrote his answers with no thought at all re; spelling.

I don’t know. My favorite color is purple. There is one color I can not STAND…blue green. It makes me ill.

My favorite color changes with my mood, and I like some shades of a color much better than other shades. In addition, my attitude about a color improves if it can be paired with a contrasting color. So I rather hate a deep dark red, but if it’s a deep dark red shot through with gold or turquoise, I kind of like it. LOL

Anyway, because of this, I totally fail at these employer tests. http://www.deweycolorsystem.com/color-employment-indicator

My sister’s favorite color is red. Has been since we were teenagers. I don’t know that she actually LIKES the color red so much as the fact she heard it was the “power” color. In that case, her “favorite” color definitely reflects her personality.

My favourite colour is yellow. I do have a sunny disposition, but don’t consider myself as cowardly.
Unless it comes to wasps, then I frantically wave my arms about the place like some demented human windmill & scream like a 6yr old girl.
They’re yellow, but me hate em.

@Dutchess_III That blue-green color is a hospital color to my husband, maybe it is an ill color? LOL.

It has some ancient association for me. Some vague memory. I was, maybe 3, we lived in West Seattle. We had a basement. We had a toilet stall in the basement. The toilet stall was painted that color. That’s all I can tell you.

I like a deep blue and dark green and natural colors.

So I really like a pale sunny yellow but the brighter it gets the more I dislike it. I hate a pure red or a dark red, but a red on the purple side is awesome. Likewise if it’s closer to pink. I hate navy and sky blue, but if it’s very bright, that’s awesome. How in the heck do employers make any sense out of that Dewey Color Employment Indicator? Here’s one you can take yourself. http://deweytest.deweycolorsystem.com/colorprofile/en-US/?s=2

First question says “Which color do you most prefer to look at? Why can’t I choose “none” or “all three together”?

That test sucks. They demand $19.95 to give you your results. Needless to say I didn’t bother.

@snowberry i hated taking that test. I can’t imagine people can actually get usuable results from it. About halfway through I wan’t even loking at the colors, I was just clicking. I’m glad no real grade depneded on that.
I didn’t spend the $20 bucks, I already had many aptitude tests that told me I was ill suited to be a doctor, so eh

I totally agree with you guys. The problem is that some real employers actually ask potential new hires to take this test. And of course the makers of the test say it’s accurate. I went ahead and took a free test one time, filling out whatever. I can’t remember exactly but as I recall, if you like red, you’re good leadership material (remember the power tie). If you like blue, you’re a follower, etc.

And I remember not applying for some jobs because they had that stupid test.

Last time I painted my apartment I used color therapy to help pick the colors. Mostly so I would try a brand new color scheme I was very happy with the results.

Hospitals and food chains often use a specific color scheme though often it changes over the years.

The color that supposedly never irritates people (I can’t remember the specific wording or intent) is similar to peptobismal pink.

The elder care facility’s alzeheimer’s unit has been that way apparently since the 80’s. I find the color really ugly.

My walls are a green, not unlike the background color used on the answers on this page. I like them that color, it has a very calming effect on me and makes me feel good. I am going to sell my house and my realtor said I need to repaint all the walls a more neutral color like “Taupe” (like every other house on the market). I don’t think taupe is really a color, to me it is more of an absence of color but whatever. But she confirms my belief that the average American homebuyer has no imagination and cannot fathom what the walls would look like a different color, they can only see green.

Yes, I do. Try the Luscher Colour Test. My results were very accurate.

@flutherother i took that test and I agree with my answers but they seem sort of horoscopish. I’m goign to try random answers and see what it does. be right back

@flutherother Took the test, What the heck do them mean Watchful and retentive! I agree with @drhat77 and was going to do the same thing but I will await his/her return.

random trial #1 – I agree with the results

random trial #2: i agree with the results a little less but thsi may be in comparison to previosu runs. If it was the first run I could see how it would describe me.

Are you keeping track of your selection order @drhat77 ?

I wonder if it matters which is your first and last selection and less so with the ones in the center.

@rojo i think i can undo my excel spreadsheet

Random trial #3: very similar to random #1, a little different, but I still agree

Took the test several times. Agreed with some in all. Found most had same elements different verbiage. 5 attempts.

#1—{sorry lost this one}
#2-purple,blue,black,red,yellow,green,brown,grey
#3-yellow,purple,green,red,blue,black,brown,grey

Everything here seems to be phrased positively. I think most people would take almost everything stated from what I’ve seen as either a compliment or “I symphathize with your situation”. I would be hard pressed to think of anyone who would say those things do not describe them, but yet they seem very personal

@Unbroken pretty much my take on it, agree with some, not with others but my first run where I picked the order I preferred did have a larger number of agrees than the other two.

Did anyone get anything other than this:

Ambivalence(s):
The colour choices do not suggest any particular ambivalences.

Approach to Work:
The colour choices do not suggest a particular approach to work.

on any selection?

I think ambilavence is if you change your answers on the second set, which I did not.

I changed them each time.

because who wants to be called ambivalent. I call bogus.

It would have been a better test if they had not named the colors….

@Dutchess_III the colors were not named. I provided the names, although you could argue that the red was orange

@snowberry Ju like dis? I uploaded it a few hours ago, in response to your “yellow” comments, forgot about it, but now here it is.

@Dutchess_III Aw, how sweet! And it’ll never need water, die, or fade, and since I don’t have a sense of smell and this is the Internet, I don’t even have to tell you how nice it smells either. Now that’s my kinda flower!

Give me seafoam green any day!

It says absolutely nothing about me!

I like silver…I don’t think that says anything about me, except I like shiny things.

I have 3 favorite colors. Purple, pink, and sparkle. They say that I’m girly. lol

My grandson took that picture. He takes some awesome pictures! I don’t know how he does it…

I’ve always loved blue and yellow, but I’m not sure how or if these colors define any of my personality traits or not.