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Seeing red? Putting sportswear in context

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  • Candy Rowe

    (School of Biology & Psychology, University of Newcastle)

  • Julie M. Harris

    (School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Mary's College)

  • S. Craig Roberts

    (Evolutionary Psychology & Behavioural Ecology Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool)

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Arising from: R. A. Hill & R. A. Barton Nature 435, 293 (200510.1038/435293a) ; R. A. Hill & R. A. Barton reply There is a Corrigendum (11 May 2006) associated with this document. The shirt colour worn by sportsmen can affect the behaviour of the competitors1,2, but Hill and Barton3 show that it may also influence the outcome of contests. By analysing the results of men's combat sports from the Athens 2004 Olympics, they found that more matches were won by fighters wearing red outfits than by those wearing blue; they suggest that red might confer success because it is a sign of dominance in many animal species and could signal aggression in human contests. Here we use another data set from the 2004 Olympics to show that similar winning biases occur in contests in which neither contestant wears red, indicating that a different mechanism may be responsible for these effects.

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  • Candy Rowe & Julie M. Harris & S. Craig Roberts, 2005. "Seeing red? Putting sportswear in context," Nature, Nature, vol. 437(7063), pages 10-10, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:437:y:2005:i:7063:d:10.1038_nature04306
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04306
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    1. Kliger, Doron & Gilad, Dalia, 2012. "Red light, green light: Color priming in financial decisions," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 41(5), pages 738-745.
    2. Marco Piatti & David A. Savaga & Benno Torgler, 2010. "The Red Mist? Red Shirts, Success and Team Sports," CREMA Working Paper Series 2010-25, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA).
    3. Gennaro Apollaro & Pedro Vieira Sarmet Moreira & Yarisel Quiñones Rodríguez & Verónica Morales-Sánchez & Coral Falcó, 2022. "The Relationship between the Color of Electronic Protectors and the Outcome in Taekwondo Matches: Is There Fairness in National Competitions?," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(12), pages 1-14, June.
    4. Marco Piatti & David A.Savage & Benno Torgler, 2009. "The Red Mist? Red Shirts, Success and Team Sports," School of Economics and Finance Discussion Papers and Working Papers Series 249, School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, revised 17 Dec 2010.
    5. KAUFMANN, Wesley & VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN, Arjen & BOONE, Christophe, 2009. "Colorful economics: Seeing red in a prisoner's dilemma game," ACED Working Papers 2009007, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics.
    6. KAUFMANN, Wesley & VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN, Arjen & BOONE, Christophe, 2009. "Colorful economics: Seeing red in a prisoner's dilemma game," Working Papers 2009017, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics.

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