Perceived sexual receptivity and fashionableness: Separate paths linking red and black to perceived attractiveness

Pazda, Adam D.; Elliot, Andrew J.; Greitemeyer, Tobias

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“…Recent research has shown that heterosexual men are more likely to rate a woman as more attractive when she is displaying red (e.g., when surrounded by red, holding something red, or wearing red clothing or lipstick; Elliot & Niesta, 2008;Gilston & Privitera, 2016;Guéguen, 2012aGuéguen, , 2012bGuéguen & Jacob, 2012a, 2012bLin, 2014;Pazda, Elliot, & Greitemeyer, 2014;Robert, Havilcek, & Owen, 2010;Stephen & McKeegan, 2010;Young, 2015). These findings are presumably due, in part, to a pervasive link between red and romance across time and cultures.…”

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Facial Redness Increases Men’s Perceived Healthiness and Attractiveness

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Past research has shown that peripheral and facial redness influences perceptions of attractiveness for men viewing women. The current research investigated whether a parallel effect is present when women rate men with varying facial redness. In four experiments, women judged the attractiveness of men's faces, which were presented with varying degrees of redness.We also examined perceived healthiness and other candidate variables as mediators of the redattractiveness effect. The results show that facial redness positively influences ratings of men's attractiveness. Additionally, perceived healthiness was documented as a mediator of this effect, independent of other potential mediator variables. The current research emphasizes facial coloration as an important feature of social judgments.

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“…Several further experiments have corroborated the reasoning that there is a positive effect of red on attractiveness judgments, which is caused by sexual receptivity expectations (Elliot, Greitemeyer, & Pazda, ; Guéguen ; Niesta Kayser, Elliot, & Feltman, ; Pazda et al ; Young ). In accordance with these findings on red and the perceived attractiveness of others, we now propose that sexual receptivity also functions as mediator regarding the red effect on self‐attractiveness.…”

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“…In Experiment 3, we examined the processes underlying the self‐perception red effect. Previous findings demonstrated that male participants associated female targets wearing a red shirt with higher sexual receptivity resulting in higher attractiveness ratings (Pazda et al ; ; see also Guéguen, ). Regarding male targets, Elliot et al () showed that female participants perceived men with a red shirt as high in status and therefore rated these male targets as more attractive (see also Stephen et al, ).…”

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“…Moreover, there is recent research on female participants indicating that women are (at least unconsciously) aware of the link between red and fertility; it was found that female participants were more inclined to wear red clothes at the peak of their fertility (Beall & Tracy, 2013). Several further experiments have corroborated the reasoning that there is a positive effect of red on attractiveness judgments, which is caused by sexual receptivity expectations (Elliot, Greitemeyer, & Pazda, 2013;Guéguen 2012;Niesta Kayser, Elliot, & Feltman, 2010;Pazda et al 2014;Young 2015). In accordance with these findings on red and the perceived attractiveness of others, we now propose that sexual receptivity also functions as mediator regarding the red effect on selfattractiveness.…”

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The effect of red color on perceived self‐attractiveness

Berthold

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Martín

2017

Euro J Social Psych

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Recent research showed that individuals are perceived as more attractive when presented with the color red. We seek to extend these findings by studying the effects of red color on individuals' perception of self‐attractiveness, rather than the attractiveness of others. Based on the color‐in‐context theory, we hypothesized that individuals would perceive themselves as more attractive under red chromatic conditions. In three experiments, participants were asked to wear a red or a blue shirt and rated their own attractiveness. As expected, participants in the red shirt condition indicated a higher level of self‐attractiveness than participants in the blue condition. Moreover, the results showed that the self‐perception red effect was mediated by the individuals' self‐perceived sexual receptivity and self‐perceived status.

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“…Starting with a seminal paper on the "Red-Romance Hypothesis" (Elliot and Niesta 2008), a large body of literature has accumulated showing that, for instance, wearing a red T-shirt or being shown in front of a red background strongly enhances the attractiveness of men Buechner et al 2015) and women (Elliot and Niesta 2008;Kayser et al 2010;Elliot and Pazda 2012;Pazda et al 2012;Elliot et al 2013aElliot et al , 2013bElliot and Maier 2013;Pazda et al 2014a;Pazda et al 2014b). Some of these studies highlighted the parallels to the zebra finch example Elliot and Maier 2012).…”

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Irreproducible text-book “knowledge”: The effects of color bands on zebra finch fitness

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Many fields of science-including behavioral ecology-currently experience a heated debate about the extent to which publication bias against null findings results in a misrepresentative scientific literature. Here, we show a case of an extreme mismatch between strong positive support for an effect in the literature and a failure to detect this effect across multiple attempts at replication. For decades, researchers working with birds have individually marked their study species with colored leg bands. For the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata, a model organism in behavioral ecology, many studies over the past 35 years have reported effects of bands of certain colors on male or female attractiveness and further on behavior, physiology, life history, and fitness. Only eight of 39 publications presented exclusively null findings. Here, we analyze the results of eight experiments in which we quantified the fitness of a total of 730 color-banded individuals from four captive populations (two domesticated and two recently wild derived). This sample size exceeds the combined sample size of all 23 publications that clearly support the "color-band effect" hypothesis. We found that band color explains no variance in either male or female fitness. We also found no heterogeneity in color-band effects, arguing against both context and population specificity. Analysis of unpublished data from three other laboratories strengthens the generality of our null finding. Finally, a meta-analysis of previously published results is indicative of selective reporting and suggests that the effect size approaches zero when sample size is large. We argue that our field-and science in general-would benefit from more effective means to counter confirmation bias and publication bias.

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Perceived sexual receptivity and fashionableness: Separate paths linking red and black to perceived attractiveness

Cited by 38 publications

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Facial Redness Increases Men’s Perceived Healthiness and Attractiveness

Facial Redness Increases Men’s Perceived Healthiness and Attractiveness

The effect of red color on perceived self‐attractiveness

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