• DOI:10.1038/435293a
Corpus ID: 4394988

Psychology: Red enhances human performance in contests

@article{Hill2005PsychologyRE,
  title={Psychology: Red enhances human performance in contests},
  author={R. A. Hill and R. Barton},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2005},
  volume={435},
  pages={293-293}
}

R. A. Hill, R. Barton

Published 2005

Psychology, Medicine

Nature

Red coloration is a sexually selected, testosterone-dependent signal of male quality in a variety of animals, and in some non-human species a male's dominance can be experimentally increased by attaching artificial red stimuli. Here we show that a similar effect can influence the outcome of physical contests in humans — across a range of sports, we find that wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning. These results indicate not only that sexual selection may… CONTINUE READING

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