The feeling for the _blue_ seems still more to be dependent upon
the person. Many like it. Many others dislike it decidedly. When it
affords a pleasant feeling, it is described in some such terms as
these: The feeling is spiritual, lofty, beautiful, serene. The subject
himself feels immoveable. To other subjects it is too rich and intense
and painful. To one subject who heartily dislikes it always, it is
offensive or revolting, calling up a feeling akin to the emotion one
has toward insincerity in general. To none does this feeling seem
to have any great amount of sensual significance. Even when it is
called "too rich," the incongruity between the richness itself and the
ultimate qualitative significance of the blue is spoken of. Even when
pleasant, the feeling is of an "airy pleasure," volatile, unstable, and
not reliable, nor safe and secure as is the feeling for red. One feels
that it is always apt to vanish, vague, intangible, and with little
immediate definiteness of meaning. Subjects often desire to call it an
intellectual, æsthetic, or ideal sort of feeling.
No color was universally unpleasant. Two subjects found this
_greenish-yellow_ almost always mildly pleasant. For most of the
subjects, however, it was unpleasant. Here were reported feelings of
contraction, of withdrawal, of disgust, of doubt, of hesitation, of
stimulation without definiteness, dissatisfaction, slight feeling
of nausea, of sea-sickness, of opposition, and the general feeling
of offensiveness. The necessary, unpleasant aggressiveness, unrest,
or discontent characterizes this feeling. This unpleasant critical
attitude where a decision is wanted but not easily gotten, is called
often the feeling of uncertainty.
In no sense is this investigation a study of the psychology of color;
the only purpose here is to find certain clearly defined feelings
for slight stimulations, in order to find in what way they relate
themselves to other similarly simple feelings from a different source
of stimulation.
In a similar manner, then, the investigation was conducted in the
analysis and description of feeling-tones for _tactual impressions_.
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