Color Red Makes Men Amorous

And study finds they're, well, clueless about its impact on them TUESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Red really is the color of love for men, according to two University of Rochester psychologists who conducted a series of experiments to determine how color affected men's responses to...

Color Can Affect How People Think and Act

... and performance. A study published last fall in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , for instance, found that red makes men feel more amorous toward women. "We've done a study of these kind of associations, and what we find is that of the terms we looked at, red turns up on top for assoc...

Psychological study reveals that red enhances men's attraction to women

... experiments, Andrew Elliot, professor of psychology, and Daniela Niesta, post-doctoral researcher, demonstrate that the color red makes men feel more amorous toward women. And men are unaware of the role the color plays in their attraction. The research provides the first empirical support for society's ...

Women and cigarettes, the causes for consumption

...nd facilitate interaction in social relations. In that sense, they are used as a tool to get closer to men and to get in touch with them in sexual and amorous interactions. It has also been proved that women use tobacco as a sexual metaphor. Apart from this, the use of cigarettes is symbolic of power and str...

Amorous African Fish Exchange Electric Pulses While Mating

... Some African fish signal their amorous intentions by exchanging bursts of electrical impulses, a new study has found . Scientists describe this behavior as being somewhat similar t...

Abuse of the Disabled in Government Run Homes

...asions, bruises or welts". Five carers were investigated for sexual abuse, including "inappropriate fondling of clients, sexually related language and amorous behavior". And in Orlando, police are investigating the rape of a 22-year-old mentally retarded woman in a group home. The woman, who is about six mon...

Domestic Violence: The Silent Killer of Women Worldwide

... factory has been beaten black and blue by her husband. Reason: she refused to part with the money she had kept for the children’s school fees for his amorous adventures. A 7-year study conducted by the World Health Organization on the much-neglected subject of domestic violence has focused on alarming...

Amorous in Biological News

From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species

... It's a long way from the dull hums of the amorous midshipman fish to the strains of a Puccini aria or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human lo...

For crickets, parasitic flies can stop the music

...yway. Male crickets draw not only females with their songs but also parasitic flies. The uninvited guests then deposit larvae that burrow into their amorous hosts, grow for about a week and then tear their way out in "Alien" fashion, killing the cricket as they emerge. Now, University of Florida zoolo...

Single gene is genetic switch for fly sexual behavior

...irecting at other females a sexual display nearly identical to their male counterparts. Female flies with the male version of the protein also make amorous advances toward male flies that express female pheromones. In these cases, "we have been able to reverse the sex roles during Drosophila courtship," D...