Frame colour infuence on riding mindset

Have any of you noticed that the colour of a bike can really influence how you ride?
I have a red bike, used to have two, and noticed that I ride/rode those two way harder than my blue or green bikes. Yellow bike somewhere in between.

I even noticed it so much that when I resprayed my road bike which I use for long distance riding, I intentionally chose a deep blue for a more relaxed, calm mindset to help me not burn up my energy at the start of a ride.

Anyone done experiments with the same frame in different colours to see if it really makes you feel different and ride differently?
I don’t know for sure if the colour does that much or if it just happens to be bikes with geometry that encourage hard riding which also happen to be red. I did have at least one blue/white bike that really encouraged going as hard as possible.

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This has been studied quite a bit. In competition between teams or individuals red has a small but statistically significant advantage over blue (and one would presume, over other colors).

Hill & Barton (2005)

Title: Red enhances human performance in contests
Published in: Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/435293a

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Color has a well known effect on the human mind. And we are just brains with legs:) Andy (who’s learning to paint so can better control all this)

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