Room Color and Aggression in a Criminal Detention Holding Cell: A Test of the Tranquilizing Pink Hypothesis
Pellegrini, Schauss and Miller compared aggressive encounters between officers and detainees in the year before and the year after the strip-search room of a Santa Clara County detention facility was repainted from pale blue to hot pink. Incidents fell in the first month, then rose, and peaked in the second half of the pink year. The authors read the early drop as possibly an artefact of the intervention, and the annotation concludes that overall rates differed little.
Pellegrini, Schauss and Miller compared aggressive encounters between officers and detainees in the year before and the year after the strip-search room of a Santa Clara County detention facility was repainted from pale blue to hot pink. Incidents fell in the first month, then rose, and peaked in the second half of the pink year. The authors read the early drop as possibly an artefact of the intervention, and the annotation concludes that overall rates differed little.
Written from the the account in this site's article What the Pink Cell Never Proved, which reports the paper, and the annotation that summarises it.
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Pellegrini, R. J., Schauss, A. G., & Miller, M. E. (1981). Room Color and Aggression in a Criminal Detention Holding Cell: A Test of the Tranquilizing Pink Hypothesis. Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, 10(3), 174-181. NCJ 89729.