Mar 26
What Women Really Really Like
Finally a study reveals why Eve plucked the forbidden fruit! If only the fruit had been green, or say, yellow, maybe we would still be in the Garden of Eden! Fancy what life would have been like?!
When going shopping for babies, how many times do we unconsciously buy pink dresses for girls, and blue ones for boys? And if researchers are to be believed, this preference can be explained scientifically!
According to Anya Hurlbert, a neuroscientist at Newcastle University, women being drawn towards more reddish colours has something to do with evolution. Apparently women associate reddish colours with ripe fruit and healthy faces. Little wonder Eve plucked the apple, eh?
Hurlbert’s study involved a group of men and women who were asked to
look at about 1,000 pairs of colored rectangles on a computer screen in a dark room, and pick the ones the ones they liked best in as little time as possible. Most interestingly, both genders preferred the colour blue, but while men generally went in for a greener or y
ellow shade of blue, women mostly gravitated towards pinker shades of blue.
In India, shades of pink and red have traditionally been regarded as colours for women, and especially married women. Red is the colour of fertility: Wedding sarees are red, red vermillion and the red bindi on a woman’s forehead marks her marital status. These days tradition is giving way to fashion and some brides are opting for pinker shades – remember Liz Hurley’s lovely pink outfit at her wedding to business man Arun Nayar?
In Bollywood, actresses frequently resort to the “rani colour”, or the “queen’s colour” off the movie sets: Reigning queen-bee actress Rani Mukherjee wears pinks for a good night out, Shilpa Shetty frequently resorts to pink outfits for the wow-effect at her many public appearances in the UK and only recently the freshly married Aishwarya Bachchan nee Rai appeared in a stunning pink dress next to hubby Abhishek at the IIFA Awards in Yorkshire. Wanna feel feminine, sexy, attractive and comfortable? According to these gorgeous women, pink, it seems, dresses you at your most sensuous.
And here’s the science bit:
According to Hurlbert, gender-based colour preferences are rooted in evolution. Mankind’s affinity for blue can be linked to the fact that a clear blue sky signals good weather or a good water source.
Evolutionary division of labour has apparently programmed women, who are thought to have done the most fruit-gathering, to look for reddish fruit such as berries or apples whereas men do not care much about bright colours because of their former roles as hunters. According to the research, they just need to see something dark and then shoot it down. Forget the pink Barbie outfit, ladies! Seems if you want to impress your man it is the short little black number that does the trick after all!
So if men don’t go for bright colours, why is it then that women love to dress up in reds and pinks? Well, if we are to believe the scientists, the reddish colours make them feel healthy,
sensual and beautiful – but is this really only about the feel-good factor?
Ladies, oue with the truth, who is it you really really want to attract?Source: Drdesi.com
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