ArticleChild development2021
Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference.
Article in Child development, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Do we feel colours? A systematic review of 128 years of psychological research linking colours and emotions.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Pooled it
- A cultural evolutionary model of attribute-dependent norms on behaviors with and without direct payoffs.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Visual change-related brain potentials elicited by changes in doll hair color in school-aged children.BMC neuroscience · 2025Article
- Walking in a self-selected enjoyable colored environment: exploring gender-specific effects and dynamics of affects, perceived exertion, heart rate, and preferred walking speed.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Children's preferences for features and designs of KN95-style respirators: A comparative study between Indonesia and Nepal.PloS one · 2025Article
- Red background color biases gender categorization of human faces.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Androgens and child behavior: Color and toy preferences in children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH).Hormones and behavior · 2023Article
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- Using head-mounted eye trackers to explore children's color preferences and perceptions of toys with different color gradients.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Preferences for pink and blue were tested in children aged 4-11 years in three small-scale societies: Shipibo villages in the Peruvian Amazon, kastom villages in the highlands of Tanna Island, Vanuatu, and BaYaka foragers in the northern Republic of Congo; and compared to children from an Australian global city (total N = 232). No sex differences were found in preference for pink in any of the three societies not influenced by global culture (ds - 0.31-0.23), in contrast to a female preference for pink in the global city (d = 1.24). Results suggest that the pairing of female and pink is a cultural phenomenon and is not driven by an essential preference for pink in girls.
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