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，亚历山大．肖斯博士研究了粉红色如何影响人们的行为。他发现运动后只要注视著一张印有贝克．米勒粉红色的卡片就能有效地降低心率、减缓呼吸速度。肖斯认为这种特殊的粉色调（也被称为 P-618）可以让人冷静下来。1979 年，他在西雅图的一所监狱里将牢房漆成了粉红色，借此测试他的想法。结果显示，仅仅在粉红色牢房中待十五分钟就能大幅减少暴力行为。
生活必备字词：
effectively adv. 有效地
calm sb down 使某人冷静下来
violent a. 暴力的
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