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Does colour have affect on how you perceive things?
Id say so...hues of red indicate stop, danger or just draw attention to things ...it tends to catch the eye naturally more so than others maybe due to its immediate contrast..or maybe because we just tend to go " Hey! RED!!" in our minds in natural response..
Or maybe its related to the fact when you bleed its red...I dont know...

Blue ink being depressing?...thats silly....

While it is true that hues of blue and green tend to be more relaxing than reds and oranges which tend to be more alarming colours...I dont think theres enough ink on the paper to do that....especially be depressive...

Is Red being offensive/alarming in marking papers?...
Maybe...but by all means that is a good thing when dealing with children ..
I mean dont get me wrong Im not saying correction should be offensive...but rather if they are alarmed by the sheer number of X's all over the paper then they should be able to realise that they should try and do better ..or if they dont get it...ask the teachers about it...

Then again this has its limits..6 yr old kid sure..red X and 0's all over a test may make them think different than if it were blue
I mean I think by teenage years it doesnt really matter if you get red ink...green....blue.....pink (actually that one is hard to read..) or purple...because by that point it should just be about why they lost the marks and trying to learn from mistakes...

Do I think the colour changing idea reduces motivations?
maybe..maybe not....Im no physiologist....

I do think its utterly absurd though...if anything the colour has a positive effect not negative...and as said before both good and bad are marked in red..so why should it matter?

I swear parents nowadays are trying to bubble their kids ...Only for the kids to hit the real world and implode from the sudden shock of this thing called 'life'...