How people respond to color

Have you ever wondered why there are so many yellow buttons, or why we often use…red, orange, and yellow to attract attention?…Even though there are sociocultural meanings associated with colors, such as…red means danger or stop, there are also physiological reasons why yellow and…red attract our attention.…Our eyes are actually more sensitive to yellow, orange, and red than to any other colors.…We all know that computer monitors create colors by mixing different ratios of…red, blue, and green light.…Well, the human eye is sensitive to color with a similar system of color receptors.…

This is described by the trichromatic theory.…We have a light-sensitive cells in our eyes that detect red, green, and blue…light, and our brain combines the different ratios of incoming light into all of…the colors we see in the world around us.…But why are we more sensitive yellows and reds? Because the number of red, green,…and blue cells are not equal.…About 64% of the cells are sensitive to red, about 26% of the cells are…