ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017
Human colour in mate choice and competition.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Predicting Facial Attractiveness from Colour Cues: A New Analytic Framework.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Virtual approach of the aesthetical fit between hair colours and skin tones in women of different ethnical origin backgrounds.Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI) · 2022Article
- I Wanna Draw Like You: Inter- and Intra-Individual Differences in Orang-Utan Drawings.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Balancing costs and benefits in primates: ecological and palaeoanthropological views.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Colour matters more than shape for chimpanzees' recognition of developmental face changes.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Using Sexual Selection Theories to Examine Contextual Variation in Heterosexual Women's Orientation Toward High Heels.Archives of sexual behavior · 2020Article
- Cooption of the pteridine biosynthesis pathway underlies the diversification of embryonic colors in water striders.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Color statistics of objects, and color tuning of object cortex in macaque monkey.Journal of vision · 2018Article
- Predictors of Fighting Ability Inferences Based on Faces.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- 360 Degrees of Facial Perception: Congruence in Perception of Frontal Portrait, Profile, and Rotation Photographs.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Animal coloration research: why it matters.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
- The current and future state of animal coloration research.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
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Abstract
The colour of our skin and clothing affects how others perceive us and how we behave. Human skin colour varies conspicuously with genetic ancestry, but even subtle changes in skin colour due to diet, blood oxygenation and hormone levels influence social perceptions. In this review, we describe the theoretical and empirical frameworks in which human colour is researched. We explore how subtle skin colour differences relate to judgements of health and attractiveness. Also, because humans are one of the few organisms able to manipulate their apparent colour, we review how cosmetics and clothing are implicated in courtship and competition, both inside the laboratory and in the real world. Research on human colour is in its infancy compared with human psychophysics and colour research in non-human animals, and hence we present best-practice guidelines for methods and reporting, which we hope will improve the validity and reproducibility of studies on human coloration.This article is part of the themed issue 'Animal coloration: production, perception, function and application'.
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