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@benette37 11 лет назад

Now all I need is the hex value and I'm gonna set it as my wallpaper

@foxtrapper1972 11 лет назад

I worked as an institutional painter a few years ago. All I can tell you is we initially painted psychiatric hospital walls pink (based on some study) (we were told)... And about two years later we repainted the whole place a light green (based on another study) (or so we were told). Sorry I cannot site specific studies.

@TanTanRahlf 11 лет назад

I remember hearing about this a long time ago. If I recall correctly, Iowa is one of the Division One schools that has their visitors locker rooms painted pink.

@chrstwrg 11 лет назад

I am going to start rocking pink shirts and talk mad shit to people . lol

@xi399x 11 лет назад

The University of Iowa under Hayden Fry were the first to use pink in visiting locker rooms. Those locker rooms are still pink today, and I mean EVERYTHING is pink. Go Hawks.

@K777angel 11 лет назад

Wow good insight...thank you!

@veranet99 11 лет назад

I remember reading about this a long time ago. My favorite application has to be that of using it on the visiting team locker room.

@CossackUSA 11 лет назад

My (completely unscientific) hypothesis is that pink is the color that we, as fetus' "see" through our shut eyes, in the womb. Shut your eyes & look towards a light & notice what color you "see". Much like certain types of "white noise" can tend to calm one's agitation; I think it's by mimicking the sound fetus' hear in the womb, of the mother's heartbeat/blood-flow.

@Sammysapphira 11 лет назад

It won't completely stop violence instantly.. It's an overall effect over time.

@cheeseisgreat24 11 лет назад

What did you expect? For him to read his book aloud on camera? He gave an introduction to his work, gave a short synopsis of what he's written about, and if you're interested in learning more, you can go read his book. If you don't care about what he's done, you can ignore it and move on with your life. But why should he give all of the things he's put hard work into writing to you for free? He's not going to make a mint off people anyway, but we should support his work if we like it.

@AutodidacticPhd 11 лет назад

Honestly, I think the choice of warm primary colours in that particular case are just an attempt to make the location stand apart from its surroundings. Think about it. You probably can't name which houses are painted grey and which are brown on the average suburban street, but you definitely know where the bright pink and purple house is.

@colourmegone 11 лет назад

The "drunk tank" is a special jail cell where drunks pulled in for antisocial behaviour, usually violent, are housed until they sober up enough to be either put into the general population for further processing or released. It isn't just any cell and, since it's a holding area (hence the 'tank') intended for multiple occupancy, it tends to be much larger than a normal cell. There are also the pink coveralls worn by those sentenced to do public service which highlight their status publicly.

@Airwreck97 11 лет назад

I heard this on the radio some time ago.... :)

@ShawnRavenfire 11 лет назад

One way this can be tested is to apply this in some other country where the color pink has different connotations and isn't associated with femininity. If the effects are the same, it would indicate that we're intrinsically or biologically programmed to respond to the color a certain way. If the effects are different, then we'll know that it's because of the cultural associations with pink.

@FossilLiker 11 лет назад

*MIND BLOWN*

@JosephStern 11 лет назад

Very thought-provoking.

@Ryan2142 11 лет назад

Almost certainly. At the beginning of the century pink was considered a masculine color in the USA and England, because of it's association with Red. Blue was the feminine color at that time.

@Capgungoesbang 11 лет назад

The pink comforts and calms them because it reminds them of that sweet, sweet womb.

@makexxwar 11 лет назад

I was hoping you would link me to a video like that, I found it to be very interesting. Although, I could argue that while there is no light that is pink, the color pink still exists in the form of a qualia that our brain uses to identify a particular combination of wavelengths, so it is a real color in terms of qualia, but not real if talking about specific wavelengths.

@DavidGitongawriter 10 лет назад

A great dense read that is both fascinating and insightful

@sparkle7723 10 лет назад

wow..just wow

@KeymoEmbryoSagan 11 лет назад

* gets thrown in Pink Room "Nigga' what the fuck ?!" * sits calmly & stares at the door restlessly w/out blinking waiting for a group of prison guards dressed in Pink uniforms all ready to do The Nasty Train

@rogerstill71 11 лет назад

I've always found a medium shade of green to be the most restful and calming, for myself. Oh, well...

@toshtao1 11 лет назад

I wish my high school was painted pink. All of the walls were red and gray, like hell.

@JanjayTrollface 11 лет назад

rose tinted contacts for all!

@vendarsr 11 лет назад

I found out in FLorida, US it is not legal to paint a sales show room pink as it makes people more susceptible to high pressure sales tactics. I think they should paint the squad rooms of police pink they are becoming more and more aggressive over the past decades.

@ztrigwell 11 лет назад

I heard they use those colours because they're quite alarming. Being a fast food restaurant they don't want people to be there for long so they use reds and yellows. However, I don't know how much of that is true.

@FireButts15 11 лет назад

What's so wonderful about pink is that it's a color that doesn't actually exist. It's just the brain's attempt mixing red and violet.

@Jamo3 11 лет назад

These people do not come and talk for Big Think for no reason. They come to put themselves out there and raise awareness for their own agenda. They become more popular and their research becomes more important. Some of them plug their own books because they are here for the generation of interest. There is nothing wrong with it. This is how the world works.

@DoraKage 11 лет назад

that explains why there's almost always a pink ranger.

@spokehedz 11 лет назад

Yes, I mean clearly we have pink colors. It was really just to have people think a bit more than they normally would. Also, side note: maybe that is why the color is calming? Because it is a mix of both the extreme ends of the color spectrum and our brains just can't handle the idea of those things existing at the same time?

@goose1077 11 лет назад

I always thought red and yellow was to get you to leave, so that they could use the table for somebody else. At least that's what I've always heard. They've abandoned it to some degree though.

@matman16 11 лет назад

I've been thinking of painting my room, makes me wonder whether I should be taking the psychological effects into account when choosing a colour scheme. Same when contemplating the colours I include in my C.V.

@TheBackwoodLink 11 лет назад

Pink has always been my favorite color... It's all pink on the inside.... of drunk tanks...

@lukejtmulder 11 лет назад

Well that escalated quickly.

@Lemenks 11 лет назад

Seems like it, a few nice suggestions as to where it can be useful, your rivals changing room or bold kids.

@Niknackquiznetwork 11 лет назад

Very interesting

@karmakh 11 лет назад

Of course, but there are quite many variations of pink. Even if it was just the ordinary one, it wouldn't have been a major task to quickly display it in the video.

@Jamo3 11 лет назад

I'm not sure who flagged his message as spam, but it was not me. The RU-vid spam system is messed up if one person can silence the shared opinions of hundreds of people. In fact, I did agree with Steve. I simply went into the reasoning behind the message more and expressed that this is a common way to garner support in the world. Without this system, we would accomplish much less as a race.

@IsaacVanMosley 11 лет назад

Very interesting :)

@ShawnRavenfire 11 лет назад

Naturally, we'd have to take that sort of thing into consideration as well. And while it wouldn't prove anything beyond a shadow of a doubt, it would give us a pretty good general impression.

@justwhyamerica 11 лет назад

the visitor's locker room in kinnick satdium at the university of iowa is still pink

@McJohnstable 11 лет назад

I'm perfectly fine with big think advertising books people can learn from... makes sense really.

@MrConorWB 11 лет назад

The beard is epic.

@12thewalkingdead 11 лет назад

awesome

@buzzardbeatniks 11 лет назад

Here in the U.S. pink used to be considered the boys color and blue was for girls. I think that changed sometime in the 40's or 50's. So, I wouldn't be surprised that if gender associations of color could be different over time than they probably could in other places too...or not.

@LordMarcus 11 лет назад

I think it's because when you're in a pink room, it's because you can't stop thinking about being in a pink room and how absurd it, your situation, and everything is.

@HaploidCell 11 лет назад

Maybe the hardened criminals were shamed to be stuck in a pink cell, and everyone who was was mocked by their peers. So, that would also be a reason why violence went down. However, I do admit that colours can have an effect on moods. Being surrounded by dark colors can make people feel depressed, for example. I just find it hard to belief that grown-ups with scrupulous violence on their record who weren't detered by jail changed over 9 months due to a nice colour.

@aj19bcx 11 лет назад

pink used to be an aggressive color, since red is aggressive and pink is just a lighter tint of red it used to be seen as masculine, powder blue like Jeff Dunham's Prius was the feminine color.

@dragonlady2264 11 лет назад

that is a fascinating thought; I would not be surprised if science found this to be true... just as I believe a lot of violence is "learned" in the womb as well, if the mother had a traumatic pregnancy or was abused or emotionally "unstable" while pregnant...

@Zentaurus21Blogspotr08m1n 11 лет назад

orange and yellow, actually, IIRC. studies show these colors most enhance the eating experience.

@mouhaahaahaa 11 лет назад

My school was painted Drunk Tank Pink and calmly light green to match. Dang, I've been brainpainted

@6DireWolf9 11 лет назад

I remember that color in school, it looked like Pepto-Bismol. :P

@650sFinnest 11 лет назад

Holy shit I just had an epiphany! Why don't we get rid of all the jumpsuits in the US prisons and replace them with pick ones? I mean there is nothing unethical about that and it would be the biggest experiment in history with that much data, results would be pretty dam good. Control= now, experimental= pink jails. Also a bunch of pink criminals would be hilarious.

@oeckstei 11 лет назад

Further research and experiments w/ the psychology and sociology of urban design does seem like a politically radical yet worthy approach to try and mitigate certain deviant behaviors sounds for schools and prisons. Some hospitals today for example look like luxury hotels and I'll bet that helps to reduce a lot of anxieties people have.

@vcostor 11 лет назад

He doesn't mention in here that after a few hours in the jail cells people would start having near psychotic behaviour and that is why it isn't used anymore.

@slackerlifeman 11 лет назад

You can paint the walls whatever color you want. The recidivism rate of pink prisons will be the same as grey. A private prison system is such a terrible idea, but my fellow Americans would be hard pressed to justify the cost. Perhaps one day a Senator's child will go to prison, and he'll see that his child received no rehabilitation whatsoever. Then maybe something will get done.

@jona_ko208 11 лет назад

i think pink has become more associated with women because it has it's calming influence

@ChristianF15cher 11 лет назад

Anyone else think that "Drunk Tank Pink" would be a good name for a band?

@kennyvd 11 лет назад

In that case, we agree. Odd that a comment can so easily be flagged as spam.

@MrTerraBubble 11 лет назад

You can see it in his eyes.. "Buy my book"

@mckeighanjoshua 11 лет назад

This is NOT a Big Think, but a plug to buy his book.

@EdBruceWRX 11 лет назад

All I know is a pink room makes me sick. Was house shopping and the master bedroom was pink. The walls. The carpet. The ceiling. The friggin furniture was pink. My first thought was not calming. My second thought was get the hell out.

@rainbowfear123 11 лет назад

@TheUndeadTech Red is associated with hunger and ravenous feeling and also makes you want to spend more. although i am not sure about yellow. nice spot.

@RHZME 11 лет назад

Not necessarily. Let's say pink in Foreign Culture A is associated not at all with femininity but some other connotation like mourning that inhibits or dampens aggressive behavior just like the color would here. The sameness of effects might not distinguish between natural and cultural factors (a bit of a false dichotomy anyway). Even if pink in Foreign Culture A had no inhibitory connotations and still inhibited aggression in subjects, the effects might still remain unexplained.

@oeckstei 11 лет назад

Further research and experiments w/ the psychology and sociology of urban design does seem like a politically radical yet worthy approach to try and mitigate certain deviant behaviors sounds for schools and prisons. Some hospitals today for example look like luxury hotels and from experience that certainly helps to reduce a lot of anxiety associated w/ the normal visual imagery of what is normally an unpleasant place to be.

@Omniceros 11 лет назад

holy shit I was in one of those pink classrooms. it made me sleepy as hell.

@GabrielPaivaHarwat 11 лет назад

Did you know that pink is not a color? At least not a visible color of light. Refracted light on a prism would only show pink (magenta, fucsia) on the ultra violet range and invisible to the naked eye, making it very uncommon on nature. Also is opposite to green, the most common of colors and the one our eyes detects the most shades of. Maybe theres an answer inside all that.

@karmakh 11 лет назад

It would've been nice to actually see the color in question in the video. Oh well...

@SuperDarthKelly 11 лет назад

My dad always told me that prisons did this to punish the prisoners. Guess he was wrong.

@elchafa337 11 лет назад

So... Imma have to google it myself? lol

@feelingweller 11 лет назад

Those Boston Bomber guys should have had more pink in their lives

@profsat5 11 лет назад

Yes that is it.

@TheBackwoodLink 11 лет назад

That's when rubber walls come into play.

@ltmechanicus 11 лет назад

...and my office is still sickeningly beige.

@ShawnRavenfire 11 лет назад

Yes I did. :-)

@punim11192011 10 лет назад

it would have been beneficial to actually show s the exact shade of pink youre referring to dontcha think?

@NoahDiamond-Firearms-LLC 9 лет назад

BACON!

@kennyvd 11 лет назад

But why did Steve's message get flagged as spam? It's not extremely negative or insulting in anyway. He simple states that it is an ad (Which it is) And I totally agree that there is nothing wrong with it. In the contrary, I actually like it. This subject seems rather interesting, and now I know at least one author who can give me more information about it.

@jian2069 11 лет назад

my canadian school has a halls that are green, yellow and blue...

@Scobbo 11 лет назад

Maybe the prisoners found it a cruel and unusual punishment so they started behaving to avoid it.

@sonnetxi 11 лет назад

My theory: pink is for the majority of human history associated with the colour of babies? Its important to be "aww" rather than "grr" in front of a baby.

@Iowa2006 11 лет назад

Strangely enough, a man wearing pink will not pacify anyone, but invite people to punch him.

@voussoirnet 11 лет назад

It was interesting.

@Aquais97 6 лет назад

Do you think that color could also help people who suffers from severe anxiety disorder to calm down?

@martinakirke8583 11 лет назад

of course punishment has a bigger effect but who said that they didn't punish them the same way before they painted the walls pink? i think it sounds weird when he says "the color interacts with brain", but the colors can and do influence peoples moods, not like a punishment does, but the influence exists... many companies, political parties, hospitals etc. use it... its hard to measure mood, but if you have many subjects, you can do that

@noregrets92 11 лет назад

This type of psychology is almost common knowledge by now, so my question is would it still work given there's a chance the prisoners might know it was meant to calm them?

@PITTartistpen 11 лет назад

whats the book called that they are talking about

@profsat5 11 лет назад

The shade of pink that was found to work best was like Pepto Bismol.Not a bright pink.

@HomesteadPatriot 11 лет назад

The fact that I'm color blind makes angry! LOL

@simien896 11 лет назад

In Argentina cops that break the law wear Hello Kitty arm bands

@TheTheothergender 11 лет назад

Notice how similar schools and Prisons are?

@YoMommaSmellLikeHotDogWater 11 лет назад

I love you.

@outoftunefiddler 11 лет назад

Not here in New England!

@NeverwascooL 11 лет назад

Drunk tank minus green? Hmm I just go learned. Oh btw pink really is white minus the green so yea it's really minus green

@JaihindhReddy 11 лет назад

And yet you didn't show how it looks. It would be awesome if the background was drunk tank pink instead of the regular white.

@DoubleTapzzz 11 лет назад

Edward!!

@ActuatedGear 11 лет назад

Drunk tank pink is the color of a sunset. Humans are diurnal. Good enough answer for me.

@colossalko 11 лет назад

I bet you cant wait for saturday.

@pgplaysvidya 11 лет назад

Every action you do is to further your own personal preferences. What difference is that?

@sotijas 11 лет назад

maybe the pink just irritated them so much it worked as punishment? i know i'd feel uneasy in a pink room

@slayerwulfe 11 лет назад

really liked it because this is big think. please buy it adam because this is brain chemistry and you will believe it when you start to investigate pink and green, plz do so. slayerwulfe cave