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Women really do prefer pink, researchers say
Reuters via Yahoo ^
| 2007 Aug 20
| Reuters
Posted on 08/21/2007 11:32:12 AM PDT by Brujo
Boys like blue, girls like pink and there isn't much anybody can do about it, researchers said on Monday in one of the first studies to show scientifically that there are gender-based color preferences.
Researchers said these differences may have a basis in evolution in which females developed a preference for reddish colors associated with riper fruit and healthier faces.
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"We speculate that this sex difference arose from sex-specific functional specialization in the evolutionary division of labor," she wrote in Current Biology. "There are biological reasons for liking reddish things."
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"Women have a very clear pattern. It's low in the yellow and green regions and rises to a peak in the purplish to reddish region," she said.
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For men, thinking about colors was less important because as hunters they just needed to spot something dark and shoot it, Hurlbert said.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; menfrommars; psychology; sexdifferences; sixdifferences; womenfromvenus
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To: Brujo
Now I’m worrying. My favorite color is blue and I hate shopping.
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posted on
08/21/2007 3:04:17 PM PDT
by
Politicalmom
(Of the potential GOP front runners, FT has one of the better records on immigration.- NumbersUSA)
To: steveo
122
posted on
08/21/2007 3:06:50 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Go Bears !)
To: Abathar
MY EYES!!
I could have happily lived out my life never having seen that pic.
123
posted on
08/21/2007 3:07:32 PM PDT
by
Politicalmom
(Of the potential GOP front runners, FT has one of the better records on immigration.- NumbersUSA)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Well, that’s the way it works for birds.
124
posted on
08/21/2007 3:10:20 PM PDT
by
Politicalmom
(Of the potential GOP front runners, FT has one of the better records on immigration.- NumbersUSA)
To: Brujo
Well not this girl. Pink is not a color it’s a disease!
125
posted on
08/21/2007 3:13:06 PM PDT
by
g33k355
("He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.")
To: Red_Devil 232
The term mohammedan is considered offensive to those who prefer to be called muslims.Well duh! You've got it all wrong. it isn't 'mohammedan' it's 'mohammad-damned'...
126
posted on
08/21/2007 3:59:14 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I hate to suggest something this radical, but why not let the policy follow the facts? ~ReignOfError)
To: READINABLUESTATE
Yeah, men only need to know a half dozen or so colors.
A woman is expected to know 27 shades of white, and be able to distinguish the differences between red, scarlet, crimson, vermilion, blush, ruby, carmine, cherry, etc., etc., without a reference sample...
127
posted on
08/21/2007 4:07:38 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I hate to suggest something this radical, but why not let the policy follow the facts? ~ReignOfError)
To: TASMANIANRED
Soon all this research will have to be tossed as women’s favorite color becomes black...Do you mean black black, charcoal black, raven black, midnight black, graphite black, Hillary soul black, peat black, lamp black, or?...
128
posted on
08/21/2007 4:11:29 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I hate to suggest something this radical, but why not let the policy follow the facts? ~ReignOfError)
To: ari-freedom
It doesn’t explain why men prefer blue. Because after listening to them rag on you long enough that shade of blue they turn when you choke them is just so satisfying?
(Just guessing, mind you, no personal experience or anything like that here)...
129
posted on
08/21/2007 4:17:07 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I hate to suggest something this radical, but why not let the policy follow the facts? ~ReignOfError)
To: Xenalyte
I want to rebuild a classic car - something along the lines of a ‘57 Chevy - and paint it hot-pink, with a zebra interior and a chain-link steering wheel.Make that a small chain link steering wheel.
It's easier to drive with handcuffs.
(Once again, no personal experience with this one either. Nope. Not me)...
130
posted on
08/21/2007 4:19:55 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I hate to suggest something this radical, but why not let the policy follow the facts? ~ReignOfError)
To: null and void
Burka black implied but not stated.
131
posted on
08/21/2007 4:32:24 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
To: stylin19a
Yeah, I was gonna say I like the pink, too.
132
posted on
08/21/2007 4:37:29 PM PDT
by
toddlintown
(Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
To: TASMANIANRED
Not happy.
133
posted on
08/21/2007 5:03:23 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
To: ari-freedom
That would be what I had in mind.
134
posted on
08/21/2007 5:06:29 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Pansy is a nice word.
135
posted on
08/21/2007 5:11:23 PM PDT
by
bannie
To: shbox
Hey, think about it. Women are attracted to it..........
136
posted on
08/21/2007 5:13:02 PM PDT
by
bannie
To: the OlLine Rebel
Eddie Izzard.
FUNNY!!!!!!
But where'd he get the mammaries????
137
posted on
08/21/2007 5:22:31 PM PDT
by
bannie
To: bannie
Thanks for the mammaries...
138
posted on
08/21/2007 5:26:06 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I hate to suggest something this radical, but why not let the policy follow the facts? ~ReignOfError)
To: null and void
My first husband really liked that song...
139
posted on
08/21/2007 5:28:23 PM PDT
by
bannie
To: bannie
Did they ever find the body?
140
posted on
08/21/2007 5:32:31 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I hate to suggest something this radical, but why not let the policy follow the facts? ~ReignOfError)
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