This affects how we solve the anagram due to our individual differences to the visual stimuli presented at the time of performing the specific task. This alters our performance as priming manipulation is used. Priming manipulations are used to increase the mental representations without necessarily letting the participant know to achieve neutral behavior and results of the experiment (Jefferis, & Fazio, 2008). This type of manipulation works as the participant is unaware of how they will later be affected in correspondence to the results of the anagram. If they were to be informed of the manipulations’ then the results would be biased due to the possibility of the participants acquiring anxiety due to the unknown …show more content…
The color red has received the most attention from all the other colors as it has the strongest correlation to being attributed to negative connotations such as anger and it has relations to danger and potential threats (Young, Elliot, Feltman, & Ambady, 2013). Research indicates that being around the color increases the sense of leadership in competitive aspects as well as in intellectual group activities. Several experiments as stated in this article explain that using certain colors such as red have shown that it activates avoidance behavior and can have a negative effect towards the activity and undermines the participants’ performance (Young, Elliot, Feltman, & Ambady, 2013). In detail, one experiment in particular that explains how red can negatively affect our performance is the study done by (Young et al., 2015) where we anticipated that red would facilitate the processing of anger and slow down the processing of happiness expressions. We used participants to categorize faces displaying either happiness or anger with a different colored background (Red, Grey, Green) as quickly as possible. The results concluded that the red background facilitated the identification of anger instead of happiness (Young et al., 2015). This illustrates how red can negatively influence a person’s