Column Chronicles: The power of green is for real

The power of green is for real

Frank Cotolo
July 28, 2016

A new study has revealed something contradictory to an old study about colors. A previous study claimed that red was the color with true power over people's emotions. A new study presents green as the true power color.

People and green have a great relationship, the study revealed. All kinds of people were used for the study. There were people of different colors, nationalities, cultures, religions and creeds participating in the study, so the researchers are sure the results make sense.

"We found that people exposed to green associate with happiness, hope, peace and good will," said chief researcher Skully Contraption. "Most of the subjects of the study were affected so positively with a sense of compassion and giving by the green we used in the study that when they left they each returned the ten dollars and fifteen cents we paid them to participate."

Over the past decade, green has been used as a symbol of purity with products associated with organic elements. Did this have anything to do with how the people in the study felt when exposed to green?

"It certainly did," said Contraption. "When asked for the one feeling that green gave to them, study participants mostly said words relating to purity. Among those words were pureness, clean, clear, pristine, simple, purified, undiluted, undefiled, virgin, unmingled, unmixed, unpolluted and perfect. Only one person said the word 'vomit.'"

Contraption also said that most of the people in the survey were so impressed by understanding how much they adored green that they went home and painted their favorite rooms shades of green.

"One person used a dramatic forest green for a living room. Others used light and dark tones of green on their bedrooms," Contraption said.

The effect of the study also ignited a sudden surge in the sales of lettuce, celery and various green chili peppers, green onions and string beans by study members.

One study member, a singer, recorded an album featuring a dozen songs, including, "Little Green Apples," "Mountain Greenery," "Greenback Dollar," "Greensleeves," "Green Fields," "Green Grass of Texas,” "Ballad of the Green Berets" and "Green Tamourine."

"The strange thing, too," said Contraption, "is that all of the participants in the study got together and put together a junket to Ireland. None of them were Irish or had been to the country but since becoming aware of how green affected them they wanted to all experience the land where green means more to the culture than any other country in the world."

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.