Do Mood Rings Really Work?
Micky Wong
December 14, 2009
Filed under Features
Many people who have owned mood rings (or mood necklaces or bracelets) have probably, at one point, marveled at the rings’ color changes, which supposedly correlate with the wearers’ emotional states. Unfortunately, mood rings do not actually change according to the person’s mood. Instead, they change according to temperature.
The stone on a mood ring actually contains liquid crystals that are either located underneath a clear glass covering or inside a clear hollow shell. These liquid crystals react to the heat on the surface of the skin by shifting, thus altering the colors reflected off of them. In other words, the body’s surface temperature causes the color change, not emotion.
This does not mean, however, that mood rings never work. Sometimes it can, to some extent, reveal a basic emotion. A common mood ring color chart might look like this:
Violet = love, happy
Blue = relaxed, calm
Blue-green = somewhat relaxed
Green = average
Yellow = a little tense or nervous
Brown = nervous
Black = very nervous and anxious
Mood rings are calibrated so that a human’s average surface temperature falls in the blue, or “calm,” range. A person’s skin might flush when feeling happy and romantic, which causes temperature to increase, while anxiety or fear can cause a person to feel cold.
However, temperature is not a good indicator of emotion, so mood rings are more useful as accessories than as accurate reflections of a person’s mood.
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Ahahaha…I remember that I used to believe in mood rings…I can’t believe I listened to my sisters T.T
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My sister has a mood diary, but it doesn’t work because I’d always play with it.
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OOOOh…. MAN!!! Until this very moment… or a minute ago , I beleived that my mood changed the color. It was odd because when I was mad, it was still the happy color.
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What tempratures cause the certain colors.
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Ahhh ! Now im upsett , when I actually thoght mood rings workedd ! But its odd because the colors actually go with my moodd ! Is it just soem mood rings work, maybe ?
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