{"id":23367,"date":"2015-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/wearing-red-makes-you-seem-angry\/"},"modified":"2015-05-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:00:00","slug":"wearing-red-makes-you-seem-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/wearing-red-makes-you-seem-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearing red makes you seem angry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed that people treat you differently when you wear red?<\/h3>\n

A new study could reveal the reason why.<\/p>\n

Researchers have found that wearing red coloured clothing can manipulate people’s perceptions of you, reports The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Men were rated as more aggressive and more dominant when presented in red than when presented in either blue or grey,” said anthropologist Diana Wiedemann.<\/p>\n

After showing 100 study participants pictures of 20 males wearing red, blue or grey t-shirts, both men and women rated red-shirt wearers as more angry.<\/p>\n

“This indicates that colour influences the categorical judgement of emotional expression and, specifically, that red hue is associated with a bias towards angry judgements,” said Ms Wiedemann.<\/p>\n

Other “red” insights learned by scientists and psychologists over the years:<\/strong><\/p>\n