Mood ring theory

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I got this crazy idea today that using a mood ring may help me identify and reconcile with my emotions and thus make social interactions a bit easier to access. I'm not sure it's working. I started with blue then turns purple and now it's been purple and orange for a while. And now I think I am more confused than sure! Lol

I think this was a dumb idea. What so you guys think?

What do mood rings work on? Is it finger temperature? Can't see them being very useful / accurate for anything other than decoration / amusement.

First: refresh my memory about what-color-means-what-mood. This is the first time Ive heard about or even thought about mood rings since I was in HS in the early seventies.


Second: how does having a ring (to tell you your mood?) supposed make your social interactions better?

I had a mood ring many, many years ago. (I didn't know they still made them.) Unfortunately it had no correlation to my moods. The color of a mood ring changes according to body tempurature. Whoever created them claimed that body tempurature fluctuated with mood. It does to the extent that strong emotion can increase blood flow- especially to the face. But I don't think strong emotion necessarily increases blood flow to the fingers. And even if it did, there is unlikely to be a uniform correlation between tempurature and mood which makes the color chart useless.

I found it useless for charting mood.

edited to add: Mood rings were popular when I was in elementary school. Even though I found no correlation between my own mood and the ring color, I foolishly thought it would be entirely accurate for my classmates who were also wearing the mood rings. (I was in elementary school and prone to foolish ideas.) I thought I could use the rings that other kids were wearing to figure out if they were angry with me and just hiding it well and other things I thought they might be hiding from me. I thought mood rings were the ultimate lie detector test. This ended badly because just as there was no correlation between mood and ring color for me, there was none for them either and I ended up accusing some kids of feeling things that they did not feel at all.

Well, another idea down the tubes. At least it looks cool.

I read mood rings, but I thought ring pops.

Yummy, ring pops! I remember those. You always ended up with a sticky hand, but it was so much fun it was worth it.

Using a mood ring would chart your finger temperature, yes. It could be connected to mood if you tend to have cold hands only when you are feeling a certain way. For example, if you predictably get cold hands when you are nervous, you could use a mood ring to gauge your anxiety level.

It doesn't actually chart moods, but it's a fun toy nevertheless. No reason why you shouldn't try it--maybe just having it will help you be more aware of your own emotions. Just don't trust those color charts to tell you anything but the temperature.

Have you seen those stickers that you can put on your forehead to see if you've got a temperature? They use them for babies--you just put the sticker on the child, and you can track whether a fever is getting too high, without having to constantly take the child's temperature.

I used to have a mood ring that my mom gave me. It seemed to be accurate, for me. I saw some "mood beads" at Hobby Lobby that you could make your own jewelry out of, and I held one in my hand just as an experiment. It seemed to be fairly accurate based on the chart that came with it. Maybe it works differently for every person. But on the mood beads, it said they were just for entertainment and weren't intended to be therapeutic in any way.

Mood Rings are old school! Thats cool you found a vintage one! I love things like that that can change colors on their own, they are cool to look at =)

I am not sure about the accuracy of them though.

If the mood ring does work well with you, i think your concept of using it to help identify mood is a great idea.
They always said to me to constantly question what emotion i was feeling or what mood. Sometimes i don't even know...
Yet a working mood ring would be cool. Even if it didn't work it'd be neat to watch it change colors

Mood Rings change color in relation to their temperature.

Some people's temperature increases when they're angry or libidinous, and drops when they're relaxed or asleep.

But some people have poor circulation in their hands, so an accurate indication of temperature can not be had by a ring on a finger.

I built an Arduino device that measured body heat and translated the temperature into PWM signals that drove red, green, and blue LEDs.

This simulated the operation of a mood ring.

There is nothing "magical" about it.

If you want to use temperature as a gauge a rectal thermometer would probably be a better choice than a mood ring. Downside is it's not as good as a mood ring for show and tell.

That would depend on who was being shown and told ...