15/11/2024
HAPPY FRIDAY PSYCH MATESโค ITS THAT TIME OF THE WEEK WHEN WE DEBUNK ABOUT "WEAR RED TO ATTRACT A MATE"๐ฉโโ๏ธ
What is Red, and how it affects our emotions?
Red attracts the most attention and is associated with strong emotions, such as love, passion, and anger. Itโs the universal color to signify strength, power, courage, and danger. Red is vibrant, stimulating and exciting with a strong link to sexuality and increased appetites.
Red is energizing and exciting, motivating us to act. It can also give confidence to those who are shy or lacking in willpower.
Itโs warm and positive, generally associated with our most physical needs and our will to survive. It exudes a strong and powerful masculine energy. It enhances metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure.
Wear red to energize the group or the meeting but in smaller patches of the outfit, such as a blouse or scarf. It also does wonders to uplift your mood in a dark green, grey, black and navy basic ensemble. Red ties are also favored by politicians as part of the red and blue tie partnership they wear with everything.
A little can go a long way, however, and in large areas red can cause visual strain. Wearing it too much, too often can brand you as a person in charge, but also as a bossy person.
"WEAR READ TO ATTRACT A MATE"
Several studies have reported that men rate women wearing red as sexier and more attractive than women wearing other colors, something that scientists have spun into a โJust So Storyโ about how our primate ancestors advertised their sexual availability. But in a 2016 paper in Evolutionary Psychology scientists described three experiments with 800 young men (vs. two dozen in the original study) finding no such effect. Lesson: Even if there is a weak red effect, itโs a relatively unimportant influence on how we judge potential partnersโcertainly long-term ones, but even one-night stands.
Itโs easy to become cynical about psychology, or at least the exciting results that the media pick up. The general point is not that the original, dubious claims are wrong. They might beโheck, they probably areโtrue for some people. Some of us likely do feel bolder in a power stance. Maybe believing that it can transform your life in a good way produces changes for the good that bring that about. For if there is one psychological effect that has stood the test of time, and countless replications, it is the placebo effect: that believing in the power of something can make it so. At least for some people, a little or a lot, in some circumstances some of the time.
To know more about Colors meaning in psychology click the links belowโคต๏ธ
Color psychology: How do colors Affect Mood and Emotions https://londonimageinstitute.com/how-to-empower-yourself-with-color-psychology/ #:~:text=1.-,Red,to%20sexuality%20and%20increased%20appetites.
Begley S. (2017) 7 common pop psychology: Mindful-health mind ,health life https://www.mindful.org/7-common-pop-psychology-myths-might-spreading/
