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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: Dilbert San Diego
The term homosexual is considered insulting by some, because it is a sterile clinical term. That term focuses only on certain behavior and not the whole person, so some in that community dont like that term anymore. Boo hoo! And I am po'ed with the "Homosexual Community's" usurpation of the word 'gay' which in my dictionary is listed as number 5 under slang.
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posted on
08/21/2007 11:49:32 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
(Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
To: Brujo
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. That describes a red, ripe apple to a T.
Garden of Eden, anyone?
:)
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posted on
08/21/2007 11:53:45 AM PDT
by
Bosco
(Remember how you felt on September 11?)
To: Brujo
Hmmm. This ignores the fact that men like red very much, which is why women wear red lipstick. Red lips make men subconsciously think about other red lip-like things found, um, further down. Those "things" get red when a woman is um, aroused (for those of you [mainly lib men] that can't get a date).
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posted on
08/21/2007 11:55:41 AM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(...."We're the govt, and we're here to hurt."....)
To: SaxxonWoods
Um, I was trying to think of a euphemistic way to bring this up but gave up. I think you nailed it.
(Oops, unfortunate phrasing in that last paragraph. ;-)
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posted on
08/21/2007 11:58:51 AM PDT
by
Brujo
(Quod volunt, credunt.)
To: Brujo
Everybody knows a man will dunk his doughnut in rotten grape juice if that’s the only thing close by.
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:00:12 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: ConservativeDude
Just call them Sodomites, it’s the truth and it drives them crazy too.
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:01:31 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: shbox
Then never leave a new shop rag in your pants pocket before you load the washer...
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:01:32 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Didnt feminists say that there are no biological differences between men and women, with the possible exception of between the legs differences? From the pictures that I've seen of feminists, I can certainly see why they believe that is true.
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:02:08 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Yeah? And I think it's time we give the word "gay" back to the HAPPY people. The people using it now are the most whiny, miserable, lot-full-of-losers I've ever seen!
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:09:09 PM PDT
by
Ignatz
(NPC's have feelings, too!)
To: Brujo
Pink it was love at first sight
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink it’s like red but not quite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight
Pink as the sheets that we lay on
Pimk is my favorite crayon...
I am a guy, and I Love pink...
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:11:45 PM PDT
by
picard
(Liberal: ability to supplant reality with multiple truths which are all in opposition to each other)
To: shbox
This "thing" will gladly take that shirt off your hands for you.....
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:12:40 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: Brujo
Men and women are different? Who knew?
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:14:01 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
To: Brujo
That boy dressed in pink just ain’t right. There’s your sign!
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:15:47 PM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(2 bad Tyranny, Treachery and Treason never take a vacation...)
To: Abathar
Great. There goes lunch ...
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:16:36 PM PDT
by
Brujo
(Quod volunt, credunt.)
To: Brujo
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:16:45 PM PDT
by
PBRSTREETGANG
(Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
To: shbox
LOL....my little girl (4) says boys that wear pink are pufties. I have no idea where she learned that must be innate.
To: shbox
We had wonderful sensitivity training about 15 years ago. Some lady complained of a hostile environment so off to training for everyone. My friend wore one of those shirts to the meeting, it was kinda funny.
To: SaxxonWoods; Brujo
Same reason women like purple.
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:18:23 PM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(2 bad Tyranny, Treachery and Treason never take a vacation...)
To: colorado tanker
"You mean, I'm just a man with mutilated genitals?"
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:18:46 PM PDT
by
picard
(Liberal: ability to supplant reality with multiple truths which are all in opposition to each other)
To: ConservativeDude
I think “fags” or a longer version of that is acceptable, also. Or, wait, do I have that backwards...No. It's the 'fags' that have things backwards.
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posted on
08/21/2007 12:19:00 PM PDT
by
sam_paine
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