{"id":5041,"date":"2012-05-30T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:15:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:15:49","slug":"colors-change-phs-students-moods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=5041","title":{"rendered":"Colors Change PHS Students’ Moods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Freshman Janessa Salazar sports a pink shirt and makes a heart to show that pink stands for love. Photo by: Layne Holloway<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

By Layne Holloway<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Colors are chosen for a reason. It is a proven fact that colors can change how a person\u2019s brain reacts to different things. The real question is what colors change Plymouth High School students\u2019 moods and why.
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\nJunior Casey McDonald said that her two favorite colors are red and blue. \u201cI love blue eyes [or] when somebody wears a pretty blue shirt,\u201d she explained. Her other favorite color, red, is one of her favorites because \u201cI’m a Plymouth fan and an IU fan.\u201d Both of these school\u2019s sport red colors. PHS has days where all students can wear same colored shirts to match. \u201cI think it’s pretty cool how the school tries to get the school together to do the same thing,\u201d she said. PHS\u2019s school colors are red and white. McDonald thinks that these colors symbolize patriotism. She said, \u201c[They] could symbolize the Pilgrims and the start of our country.\u201d McDonald explained how each color represents a different type of mood. \u201cColors like yellow, orange, and red are more of happy colors. While brown, black, navy blue, and darker colors like that symbolize sadness or emptiness. Or pink, white, and red symbolize the sort of love, like on Valentine’s Day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Freshman Ryan MacLain revealed that his favorite color is also blue. \u201cI guess I just saw it when I was a little boy and just started liking it,\u201d he explained, \u201cIt makes me feel good.\u201d
\nMacLain commented on how not all of the students participate on the days where PHS attempts to match. MacLain said that in his opinion red and white symbolizes \u201canger and peace.\u201d He also explained that picking out clothes in the morning can be behaviorally motivated. \u201cPeople will pick out clothes to wear depending on their mood. \u00a0Many people don’t realize it but they do,\u201d he said. Wearing uniforms has been a hot topic over the years and if MacLain could pick the color of them he said they would be blue. \u201cI like wearing blue,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

Junior Lauren Tanner said her favorite color is yellow. \u201cI like yellow because I love summer. It reminds me of sun and its just a fun, bright color,\u201d she explained. Tanner thinks the idea of PHS wearing the same color is creative but \u201cit should be a fun color and not just plain black or white.\u201d To her, PHS\u2019s red and white colors represent \u201chappiness and fierceness.\u201d She said that when someone wears a bright color it is hard to be in a bad mood. If Tanner could pick the color of school uniforms she would choose red, white, and black. \u201cI think black just looks like you own the place and are the best and most sophisticated,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Junior Blake Miller\u2019s favorite color is lime green. \u201cI like the color green, and green things such as grass,\u201d he stated. Miller believes that wearing different colors can change a person\u2019s mood. \u201cIf you wear bright colors you might be brighter that day, and if you wear dark colors that might mean you\u2019re sad or mad,\u201d he said. Miller would want PHS\u2019s uniforms to be green or yellow. He explained that it \u201cwould just be cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Layne Holloway Colors are chosen for a reason. It is a proven fact that colors can change how a person\u2019s brain reacts to different things. The real question is what colors change Plymouth High School students\u2019 moods and why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9021,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}