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Show Colors Clue To Personality Blue for Introverts, Red Indicates Vigor NEW YORK Picking personality types from the colors a person prefers pre-fers Is a new parlor pastime. A house decorated predominately in blue, for instance, would indicate indi-cate that the owner was introverted, intelligent, conservative and maybe may-be just a bit lazy. That is part of the cojor theory Included in Faber Birren's new book, "Color Psychology and Color Therapy." Btren, who is 49, has been experimenting with color since his college days and has written writ-ten 14 books on the subject Yellow, he says, is the color of the high minded. The yellow type is inclined to be stand-offish, though he makes lasting friendships. friend-ships. Red indicates a hearty, vigorous person "who is likely to run roughshod rough-shod over other people's feelings." Birren advises the person who prefers pre-fers red to marry someone who likes blue or green, since they're the more conservative, stable types. If you're thinking of repainting the children's room in pink, maybe you'd better pause for a second thought. "It's the goal of most Americans to make pink personalities of their children," Birren says. He charas-terizes charas-terizes a pink personality as "one who likes life and who is interested in the world, but doesn't want to be reminded that It isn't a kind and gentle world. The pink woman, he says," probably prob-ably has been pampered and protected pro-tected since she was a child. |