Why Girls Prefer Pink

Posted by Alex in Baby & Kids, Science & Tech on August 22, 2007 at 3:26 am


Neuroscientists Anya Hulbert and Yazhu Ling of University of Newcastle, UK, have finally cracked one of the top mysteries in science: why girls prefer pink.

A University of Newcastle study found that women naturally opted for redder shades when given a choice.

Writing in the journal Current Biology, experts say it may have helped women gather ripe fruit, or pick healthy mates. [...]

According to the researchers, this strengthened the idea that the preferences might be based in biology, rather than culture.

Dr Hurlbert said: "Evolution may have driven females to prefer reddish colours – reddish fruits, healthy, reddish faces.

"Culture may exploit and compound this natural female preference."

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11 comments to "Why Girls Prefer Pink"

  1. Stabosaurus
    August 22nd, 2007 at 4:29 am

    I'm a little bit skeptical about this. The association of blue with boys and pink with girls is only about fifty years old. This site has some links to articles about this.
    http://www.songdog.net/blog/archives/000994.html

  2. Cuimhne
    August 22nd, 2007 at 6:30 am

    Huh...always hated pink, maybe I'm a freak?

  3. Eni
    August 22nd, 2007 at 8:35 am

    Nah, I hate pink as well. Don't like red all that much either. Pink actually makes me feel kind of disgusting, which is apparently the opposite effect it's supposed to have on a girl. Guess I'll always be stuck with the unripe fruit and unhealthy mates. :P

  4. Tempscire
    August 22nd, 2007 at 10:19 am

    Now, once more, but without testing adults who have already been conditioned to the the pink/blue binary.

  5. Monster
    August 22nd, 2007 at 10:48 am

    Every statement in that article is prefaced with the qualifier "may have". Hardly a "cracked" "mystery".

    Any idiot can take anything about humans and say "evolution may have..." about it.

  6. Celeste
    August 22nd, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    Healthy, reddish faces? That would go for both sexes. As for fruits.. only a fraction of fruits are red. Plenty are yellow, green, orange, blue, purple.. I mean, come on. This whole thing sounds like someone's random theory, hardly "cracking a mystery."

  7. Chris
    August 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    Wow. All those ghostlike British dudes getting sunburns on the Mediterranean coast really must have a busy night life.

  8. Siduri
    August 22nd, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    What, so only females like ripe fruit? Males like it rotten? That sounds a little silly.

  9. S.
    August 22nd, 2007 at 3:11 pm

    I think it's just a preference thing. That said, I should probably go and mate with my sister's old baby blanket.

  10. aj
    August 22nd, 2007 at 7:49 pm

    @ siduri
    they aren't suggesting that men don't like ripe fruit, more that it was women who collected the fruit and so would eventually naturally prefer healthy looking fruit. But like others pointed out it's not really a smoking gun in any sense.

  11. Monster
    August 27th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    http://www.badscience.net/?p=518


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