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    The document discusses how the color of walls can affect people in different ways. Light blue walls tend to make people feel calm while dark blue can make them feel sad or depressed. Yellow walls seem to stimulate the nervous system and cause babies to cry more and people to lose their temper more easily in yellow rooms. Green walls help people feel relaxed in offices and also allow them to read better since green paper placed over text makes reading faster.

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    The document discusses how the color of walls can affect people in different ways. Light blue walls tend to make people feel calm while dark blue can make them feel sad or depressed. Yellow walls seem to stimulate the nervous system and cause babies to cry more and people to lose their temper more easily in yellow rooms. Green walls help people feel relaxed in offices and also allow them to read better since green paper placed over text makes reading faster.

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    Read the article and complete Activity A and Activity B.

    How the Color of our Walls Affects Us

    Emily Lawson Bruce Fieldson Pamela Geer


    Interior Decorator Psychologist Office Manager

    Blue is one of my favorite colors. I tell all my clients to avoid I always paint the walls in
    It can really change how a room painting their rooms yellow. the office where I work
    feels. Light blue walls make This color seems to stimulate light green. It helps people
    people feel calm. However, dark the nervous system. Babies feel relaxed and at ease.
    blue has a very different effect. cry more in a yellow room, Researchers have also found
    It often makes people feel sad and people are more likely to that green helps people read
    and depressed. Most decorators lose their temper there than better. If you put a transparent
    love light blue, but others can’t in blue or green rooms. Some green paper over the page of
    stand it. scientists also think that it a book, you will read faster.
    causes the eyes to get tired That’s good in an office, too.
    faster when reading.

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