Luscher colour personality test

Applications of the Lüscher Colour Test include, use by some in the medical profession as an aid to diagnosis of stress related ailments.

The result of such colour tests suggest that colour preference may vary with age and even educational background. Young children tend to choose red first then blue, a trend which is often reversed during childhood, along with general acceptance of less bright, more muted colours, although in the case of the less well educated a preference for the bright primary colours often continues into adulthood.

A marked preference for bright colours is often expressed by the elderly, although this is thought to be linked to a decrease in sensitivity of the cones in the eye.

"I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked."

Edvard Munch, on his painting The Scream.