Sexy red: Perceived sexual receptivity mediates the red-attraction relation in men viewing woman ☆

By Adam D. Pazda, A. Elliot, Tobias Greitemeyer. 2012

108 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sensory Systems

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Thomas V. Pollet
2. Susan C. Roberts
3. Leonard S. Peperkoorn
4. A. Elliot
5. Markus A. Maier

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Markus A. Maier
2. A. Elliot
3. Susan C. Roberts
4. Thomas V. Pollet
5. Leonard S. Peperkoorn
6. Reinhard Pekrun
7. Kou Murayama
8. Corwin Senko

In Sensory Systems

1. Markus A. Maier
2. A. Elliot
3. Thomas V. Pollet
4. Susan C. Roberts
5. Leonard S. Peperkoorn
6. Suzanne Hidi

Citations in the corpus

• Revisiting the Red Effect on Attractiveness and Sexual Receptivity: No Effect of the Color Red on Human Mate Preferences (2016, methodology): “Contrary to Pazda et al. (2012), we did not find any evidence for the original study’s higher sexual receptivity ratings for the woman in red clothing over the woman in white clothing, even though we sampled from the same study population, employed identical questions, displayed the same photo…”
• Color psychology: effects of perceiving color on psychological functioning in humans. (2014, background): “With regard to mediation of the red effect, Guéguen (2012a) and Pazda et al. (2012) posited that men perceive a woman in red to be more sexually receptive and that this in turn facilitates their perceptions of her attractiveness and sexual desirability.”