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PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO COLORED LIGHT Larry Mark Honig Saybrook Graduate Scho... more PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO COLORED LIGHT Larry Mark Honig Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center Colored light has been used as a treatment modality for physical and psychological conditions. A few studies have shown effects on cognitive processing, autonomic, and endocrine response as well as emotional and subjective experience. Responses follow a pattern of increased arousal with lower wavelengths (red vs. blue). Heart-rate variability provides a measure of parasympathetic and sympathetic autonomic nervous system function and has been used to measure mental stress, hypnosis, and emotional states and to study conditions including anxiety disorders, depression, anorexia, alcoholism, and PTSD. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of red and blue colored light on the autonomic nervous system and on state anxiety. In addition, the relationship between response to color and the quality of absorption was examined. Twenty male and female adults were ...
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Houston, 1991. Degree granted by Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibli... more Thesis (M.A.)--University of Houston, 1991. Degree granted by Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-88).
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO COLORED LIGHT Larry Mark Honig Saybrook Graduate Scho... more PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO COLORED LIGHT Larry Mark Honig Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center Colored light has been used as a treatment modality for physical and psychological conditions. A few studies have shown effects on cognitive processing, autonomic, and endocrine response as well as emotional and subjective experience. Responses follow a pattern of increased arousal with lower wavelengths (red vs. blue). Heart-rate variability provides a measure of parasympathetic and sympathetic autonomic nervous system function and has been used to measure mental stress, hypnosis, and emotional states and to study conditions including anxiety disorders, depression, anorexia, alcoholism, and PTSD. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of red and blue colored light on the autonomic nervous system and on state anxiety. In addition, the relationship between response to color and the quality of absorption was examined. Twenty male and female adults were ...
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Houston, 1991. Degree granted by Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibli... more Thesis (M.A.)--University of Houston, 1991. Degree granted by Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-88).