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New research has shown that you might not just be feeling blue; you may also be seeing it differently. Your mood may affect how you see the world around you, according to a new study. A team of researchers has proved that sadness could have an effect on the way we see colors.

The team, led by psychology researcher Christopher Thorstenson of the University of Rochester, found that people who had a sad mood were less accurate in identifying colors on the blue-yellow axis (轴), compared to people who weren’t feeling sad.

“We were already deeply familiar with how often people use color terms to describe common phenomena, like mood, even when these concepts seem unrelated,” Thorstenson said in a statement. “We thought maybe a reason why these metaphors (比喻) appear was that there really was a connection between mood and identifying colors in a different way.”

Thorstenson and his team are not the first to identify a link between a depressed mood and a difference in recognition. In 2010, Emanuel Bubl and his team at Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg in Germany first proved a link between mood and identifying colors. This was supported by a 2013 paper by Johnson Fam of the University of Singapore.

The team conducted two studies. In the first, 127 participants were chosen randomly to watch one of two video clips, which had been proved in previous studies to feel either sadness or amusement. They didn’t do that in a specific order. The entire group was then tasked with identifying the colors in 48 continued color changes. The group that had been shown the sad clip was measurably worse at identifying colors along the blue-yellow axis.

For the second study, 130 participants were randomly assigned to watch either a sad clip or a neutral (中*的) one. The sadness group showed reduced ability to identify colors along the blue-yellow axis than the neutral group.

29. If one _______, the colors he sees might be different from those in others’ eyes.

A. is in a good mood                                B. has an eye illness

C. attends a speech                           D. doesn’t feel happy

30. Who were the first to find out the link between mood and identifying colours?

A. Thorstenson and Johnson.                B. Thorstenson and his team.

C. Johnson and his team.                      D. Emaneuel and his team.

31. The sadness group in the second study _______.                                

A. felt happy when watching the video         

B. performed better than the other

C. were less able to identify some colours            

D. could only identify blue and yellow

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