In the late 1960s, Dr. Alexander Schauss studied how the color pink could influence people’s behavior. He noticed that simply staring at a card printed with Baker-Miller Pink after exercising could effectively lower his heart rate and slow his breathing. Schauss believed that this special tone of pink, also known as P-618, could calm people down. In 1979, he tested his idea at a prison in Seattle by painting cells pink. The results suggested that spending just 15 minutes in a pink cell could greatly reduce violent behavior.
1960 年代末期，亞歷山大．肖斯博士研究了粉紅色如何影響人們的行為。他發現運動後只要注視著一張印有貝克．米勒粉紅色的卡片就能有效地降低心率、減緩呼吸速度。肖斯認為這種特殊的粉色調（也被稱為 P-618）可以讓人冷靜下來。1979 年，他在西雅圖的一所監獄裡將牢房漆成了粉紅色，藉此測試他的想法。結果顯示，僅僅在粉紅色牢房中待十五分鐘就能大幅減少暴力行為。
生活必備字詞：
effectively adv. 有效地
calm sb down 使某人冷靜下來
violent a. 暴力的
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