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Nature 437, E10 (27 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/nature04306; Published online 26 October 2005
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Sporting contests: Seeing red? Putting sportswear in context
Candy Rowe1, Julie M. Harris2 & S. Craig Roberts3
Abstract
Arising from: R. A. Hill & R. A. Barton Nature 435, 293 (200510.1038/435293a); R. A. Hill & R. A. Barton reply
There is a Corrigendum (11 May 2006) associated with this document.
The shirt colour worn by sportsmen can affect the behaviour of the competitors1, 2, but Hill and Barton3 show that it may also influence the outcome of contests. By analysing the results of men's combat sports from the Athens 2004 Olympics, they found that more matches were won by fighters wearing red outfits than by those wearing blue; they suggest that red might confer success because it is a sign of dominance in many animal species and could signal aggression in human contests. Here we use another data set from the 2004 Olympics to show that similar winning biases occur in contests in which neither contestant wears red, indicating that a different mechanism may be responsible for these effects.
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