The Readability of Foreground/Background Colors with Font Color Combinations and Their Affect on Stress Levels when Performing Simple Tasks When looking through the research literature on the psychology of color, it is apparent that it covers a wide variety of topics. Since the days of Freud, interest and methodological attention have been put into this multifaceted topic of science. The topics of investigation include: color reactions as functions of personality and psychopathology, physiological reactions …showed first 75 words of 1155 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1155 total…that our study continues the exploration of color and its effect on performance and stress or affect. The studies here show that emotion and color are strongly related. The research also shows how visual material can positively or negatively influence readability and reading performance. In addition, there is support for visual stimuli and its effect on emotions of the individual. So, it is considered important to investigate aspects of colored visual stimuli and affective reactions.