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Some people know that I have a thing for colorful or interesting/unique footwear and have more than once taken grief for the red socks I sport ocassionally. Well the secret's out thanks to a couple British anthropologists writing in the latest issue of Nature. Red is for winners.
Anyway, the Toronto Star covers it here: Do winners owe debt to being in the red? ("Wearing red apparently gives male athletes a slight competitive edge in both team and individual sports, two British anthropologists conclude in a study published today in the journal Nature."). The Globe and Mail also has the story here: Winners wear red. ("Red coloration is associated with aggression in many animals. Often it is sexually selected so that scarlet markings signal male dominance. . . . But red is not exclusively a male trait. It's the female black widow spider that is venomous and displays a menacing red dot on her abdomen.")
Posted by Grayson at May 19, 2005 08:14 AM