This quiz is gaining serious traction online for claiming to be able to tell what kind of a person you are just from the colours you associate with different feelings.
It’s derived from Professor Robert Plutchik’s ‘emotional wheel’. Plutchik was a professor and psychologist who died in 2016. He was most renowned for his study of emotions, and specifically his Theory of Emotion. He theorised that there were eight primary emotions – anger, fear, sadness, disgust, surprise, anticipation, trust and joy – because each of them can trigger you to take actions to survive.
Plutchik also assumes that different primary emotions can mix together to form different emotions – just like colours – and so the wheel of emotions was born…
