• Anger

  • the emotion of red — high-arousal threat response
  • Wavelength: 620-750 nm
  • evolutionary origin:: fire, blood, thermal injury — death from burn
  • flushed faces during aggression signal dominance. perceiving red heightens anger responses from ancestral threats like fire or wounds
  • in prism

    • signals danger, overload, critical failure
    • a counter in anger state: resource depleted, threshold crossed, system under attack
    • the strongest warning the interface can give