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Red, Rank, and Romance in Women viewing Men

2016; eScholarship Publishing, University of California; Volume: 8; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5070/m482030777

2373-809X

Kristina Haran, Savanna Grace Briggs,

Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

This project attempted to replicate Elliot et al. (2010) in collaboration with the Collaboration Replication and Education Project (CREP).Elliot et al.'s (2010) experiment examined the influence of seeing the color red on volunteers' perceptions/appraisals of others.In the present study, female undergraduate volunteers, self-identifying as heterosexual and non-colorblind, were recruited (N = 175).Participants were randomly assigned to view a photograph of man with a red or grey background for 10 seconds.Volunteers then completed surveys to rate the man's attractiveness on several different features of attractiveness (e.g., sexual desirability, extraversion, likability, agreeableness, and status/power).Two independent series of two-way ANOVAs were conducted using condition (red vs. grey) as the primary independent variable of interest.The second independent variable was the volunteers' ethnicity and relationship status, respectively.Unlike Elliot et al. ( 2010), this study did not find any significant interaction between color and perceived attractiveness.This could be due to the wide ethnic difference of participants between the two studies.Caucasian participants and participants who were in a casually dating were most likely to rate higher levels of perceived sexual desirability.Implications for research and differences between the studies are discussed.Further research should be conducted in order to determine the effect of ethnicity and relationship status on perceived attractiveness.