Is Red Really Romantic?
Lehmann and Calin-Jageman ran the replication that is hardest to argue with. Red had been reported to enhance attraction for women rating men and for men rating women. To ensure rigour, the authors obtained the original materials, planned for informative sample sizes, pre-registered the study, used a positive control so that a null result could not simply mean the method was dead, and adopted further quality controls, running the study both online and in person. For men rating women they found a very weak effect in the predicted direction. For women rating men they found a very weak effect in the opposite direction. They leave three possibilities open rather than declaring the effect dead: the original studies may have overestimated it, their own may have underestimated it, or the effect may be strongly moderated by something the literature has not identified.
Lehmann and Calin-Jageman ran the replication that is hardest to argue with. Red had been reported to enhance attraction for women rating men and for men rating women. To ensure rigour, the authors obtained the original materials, planned for informative sample sizes, pre-registered the study, used a positive control so that a null result could not simply mean the method was dead, and adopted further quality controls, running the study both online and in person. For men rating women they found a very weak effect in the predicted direction. For women rating men they found a very weak effect in the opposite direction. They leave three possibilities open rather than declaring the effect dead: the original studies may have overestimated it, their own may have underestimated it, or the effect may be strongly moderated by something the literature has not identified.
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Lehmann, G. K., & Calin-Jageman, R. J. (2017). 'Is red really romantic?' Social Psychology, 48(3), 174-183. doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000296
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