I think every female wants to unlock this mystery 🙂 It will make things simpler and life easier. I always suspected that men use their eyes 🙂 instead of brain or heart when they choose a mate. They just behave like a child who loves most of that things that glitter but are not gold! I was NOT wrong! Adult males DO behave like a child. 🙂 A man’s eye(s) definitely play an all important role in selecting a female. Jokes apart, a groundbreaking study by two University of Rochester psychologists to be published online Oct. 28 by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology adds color—literally and figuratively—to the age-old question of what attracts men to women.
“In the final study, the shirt of the woman in the photograph, instead of the background, was digitally colored red or blue. In this experiment, men were queried not only about their attraction to the woman, but their intentions regarding dating. One question asked: “Imagine that you are going on a date with this person and have $100 in your wallet. How much money would you be willing to spend on your date?”
Under all of the conditions, the women shown framed by or wearing red were rated significantly more attractive and sexually desirable by men than the exact same women shown with other colors. When wearing red, the woman was also more likely to score an invitation to the prom and to be treated to a more expensive outing.”
BUT this color blindness stops at the attractiveness barometer only. Men don’t show this color blindness as far as likability, intelligence or kindness are concerned. 🙂 Thank god for small mercies and gifting some real human qualities to males too!!
Well, what did you expect, Alka? The study was silly – or, to put it in the statistician’s language, biased. If you ask men to use their eyes only and rate women on their ‘attractiveness’ (sexual or otherwise), they are bound to go by looks, aren’t they – and that would include not only the clothes and colour of the clothes, but curves, skin colour, height, brightness of smile, and things like that. There is nothing wrong, stupid, unnatural or disgusting about such responses! If, on the other hand, you wanted men to respond to girls’ intelligence, knowledgeability, humanity and other personality elements, all the men, I am sure, would insist that they cannot comment on the basis of looks alone: they would need to know the girls up close for quite some time. If the study were reversed, wouldn’t girls/women react in exactly the same way? And wouldn’t they be equally right and fair?
All men hate pink color while we prefer pink 😀
I followed the link provided by you and saw two pics. My feeling is that the questions posed were leading. We have all been trained to believe that red is a flashy colour liked by extroverts, while blue is somewhat sober. Now if you ask me, which of the two ladies is ready to go out on a date, my first response would indicate the lady wearing red.
If they would have asked which of the two I would have liked to spend some time with, talking something sensible, I might have chosen the one in blue.
Suvro, I was expecting something like this from you. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Manasawelcome and thank you for visiting my blog. From where you find cute pics to post on your blog?
Paradox, 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂