Pink for Girls, Red for Boys, and Blue for Both Genders: Colour Preferences in Children and Adults
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DOI: 10.1007/s11199-018-0955-z
Abstract: Colours carry social connotations like pink for girls and blue for boys. In a cross-sectional study, we investigated whether such early gender coding might be reflected in absolute colour preferences in children and adults of… read more here.
Keywords: colour preferences; pink girls; boys blue; children adults ... See more keywords
Honey bees adjust colour preferences in response to concurrent social information from conspecifics and heterospecifics
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DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.10.008
Abstract: Bees efficiently learn asocial and social cues to optimize foraging from fluctuating floral resources. However, it remains unclear how bees respond to divergent sources of social information, and whether such social cues might modify bees'… read more here.
Keywords: colour preferences; information; social information; conspecific ... See more keywords
Oviposition Colour Preferences in a Grass‐Feeding Butterfly
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DOI: 10.1111/eea.70012
Abstract: Herbivorous insects use both visual and chemical cues to locate suitable host plants in diverse vegetation. Because colour is among the most salient visual cues, such insects are expected to have preferences for particular colours… read more here.
Keywords: colour preferences; colour; oviposition; visual cues ... See more keywords