Why Do Real Men Wear Pink?

At the dawn of the millennium a new phenomena had arrived to take the place of the Y2K craze: more and more men began to wear pink shirts. I have often wondered about the origins behind this trend, but my past inquiries have yielded no success. So with this blog assignment I saw an opportunity to renew my search, and seek the help of the world’s wisest philosophers . . .
Alas, there was much debate amongst them as well.


In order to answer my own question, it was necessary for me to look into the psychological effects of the color. Interestingly enough, in the early 1970's, a shade of pink had been used as a variable in several prison-aggression reduction trials. The holding cells of newly arrived inmates would be painted Baker-Miller pink, and their reactions to it recorded. One of the doctors behind the trials summarized the results as:

Even if a person tries to be angry or aggressive in the presence of pink, he can't. The heart muscles can’t race fast enough. It’s a tranquilizing color that saps your energy. Even the color-blind are tranquilized by pink rooms.

Ever since, pink was recognized to have a calming effect over the human mind. However, in the mid 1990's, follow-up research indicated that the effects were short-lived in of the many cases, and the color could even lead to increased aggression after prolonged exposure.



Taking into consideration the results from both studies, why do some men wear pink?
Correct!
. . . point proven. Just like the inmates' behavior to pink was subconscious, perhaps the motive behind wearing a pink shirt is to unknowingly display [calming] signals of attraction. Since the effects aren't long lasting, it may be wiser to stick with another color shirt.


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Sources:
http://bacweb.the-bac.edu/~michael.b.williams/baker-miller.html
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html