What Do The Mood Ring Colors Represent?
Mood rings are just that, rings that indicate the mood of the person wearing it. At least that is the promise. Mood rings were one of the many fads that briefly captured people’s attentions during the mid-1970s. But more than just a fad, they were a perfect symbol for the decade, a time when people looked inward to their own lives after a decade of social turmoil in the 1960s. Not everyone agrees on what the colors mean, but generally black stands for stressed or anxious and blue represents happy or relaxed. This is derived from the temperature of extremities depending on stress-related vasoconstriction. However, the temperature of the environment and individual variations will greatly skew the measurements and make the mood ring readouts rather unreliable. The colors are listed according to the change in temperature they represent, with dark blue being the warmest and black the coolest. Dark blue: Happy, romantic or passionate Blue: Calm or relaxed Blue-green: Somewhat relaxed Green:
