Sportsmen Who Wear Red Out on the Field Are More Likely to Win

Those who take pleasure in occasionally betting either in favor or against some sports team might wish to carefully consider what a team of University of Sunderland researchers have to say about sportsmen's choice of outfit and their chances of winning a competition.

Not to beat about the bush, these specialists say that sportsmen who opt for wearing red while out on the field are more likely to win than those who settle for other colors.

According to these specialists, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for why this should be so. Thus, they say that the color red need be linked to higher levels of testosterone.

Since this particular hormone and dominant/aggressive behaviors more often than not go hand in hand, it need not come as a surprise that those who wear red quite often turn out to be the winners.

The researchers also believe that those competing against these red-wearing sportsmen label them as strong competition, and that this also helps up the latter's chances of winning.

“The research shows that there is something special about the colour red in competition, and that it is associated with our underlying biological systems,” Dr. Daniel Farrelly reportedly commented with respect to the findings of this investigation.

“Red may, unconsciously, signal something about their competitive nature, and it may well be something that affects how their opponents respond,” the researcher went on to argue.

The claim that the color red ups sportsmen's chances of winning a competition is based on data collected while asking 73 volunteers to take part in various competitive tasks while wearing either red or blue.

The volunteers were allowed to choose the color they wished to wear. Furthermore, they were asked to fill in a questionnaire detailing their reasons for making that particular choice.

“By allowing participants in a test to choose their colour, this study reveals that there may be something intrinsically different about 'red' competitors, that can give them an advantage,” Dr. Daniel Farrelly pointed out.

Testosterone levels in all of these men were determined by analyzing saliva samples collected at the beginning of the study and once the competitive tasks had come to an end.