Why do girls often like pink?

Pink often comes with girls, which are the most common images. The little girls use things like clothes, toys, shoes, etc. tend to be pink and sometimes this habit is kept until adulthood . Some parents want their daughter to use another color, but it seems that pink still has an irresistible charm. Is that really true? Does every girl have pink love right from the moment of birth or is it influenced by the cultural environment in which the child lives? The answer depends on which position you stand on and the argument is still ongoing.

A legacy inheriting from evolution?

So far, many studies have been done to understand the relationship between color interests and different ages. In the United States, most babies and toddlers, whether male or female, are attracted to the colors of red and blue. Meanwhile, pink is not the color that gives much attention to children. Another study also followed children in this age group and found that blue was more popular than that whether it was a boy or a girl.

In 2007, researchers at Newcastle University, England, explored the color preferences of adults. The results showed that the colors chosen by both men and women were blue. However, considering women, on average, they tend to choose pink red more than men. Researchers speculate that the cause may be that in the past, women's jobs were gathering, collecting fruits, so they formed familiarity with the red nuances of flowers. fruit.

However, the results of this study still do not explain why women like or dislike a particular color. Probably, the work of female ancestors passed on to them sensitive skills with red shades, but that doesn't mean they like that color. For example, maybe red is a sign of some delicious berries, but in contrast, red can also be a poisonous fruit. So how do women love red and its nuances? More universal research is needed to demonstrate that evolution has given women a natural love for that color.

However, a study in 2013, which surveyed the Himba community in Namibia, found that women had no preference for red. If so, the argument of female color preference due to inheritance from evolution will conflict with this study. And of course, there are many other studies that support the habit of color due to the cultural environment after birth.

Many studies suggest that women prefer pink as innate thinking, inherited from ancestral gathering habits

Balance of color due to cultural environment

Cultural rules may also affect color preferences. In some cultures, it is possible that pink is default for girls and blue for boys. Therefore, right from birth, little girls are familiar and defaulted to clothes, accessories or even the surrounding pink space. This makes it difficult to identify the true color preference that is innate or formed in the early stages of life? A study conducted in 2011 tried to answer this secret.

The researchers gave 1-year-old babies (both boys and girls) pairs of identical objects but different colors. It could be a bracelet, a medicine box and a picture frame, but one is pink and the other is another color. The results show that pink does not dominate the choice of children. However, after 2 years old, the girls began to like pink while, when the nephews were 4 years old, they began to reject the appearance of pink. This is the time of formation of children's preferences and delimitations. At that time, they will talk about sex and even look around to find the difference between boys and girls. During this period, the color balance began to deviate from the gender of each gender.

In another study, scientists clarified the formation of color bias based on observing 87 children aged 3 to 5 years at a preschool. The experiment was conducted in two classes, the children in both classes were given blue or red shirts. The first class is divided into two groups, blue and red, and the teacher of this class will use these two colors to name and organize the class. Meanwhile in the other class, the teacher did not mention the color division. The results showed that, after only 3 weeks, the children in the first class began to have the color-like attitude of their group than the other group. Meanwhile, the second layer does not have this color bias.

Another argument is that color love in children is formed by cultural environments and how adults behave with their gender.

In other words, according to the above results, color bias is deeply affected by the external environment. So what about gender? Gender is the main topic when adults talk about pregnancy. As soon as we talk about someone being pregnant or having a baby, the first question we ask is: "Boy or girl?" Perhaps the color preference of babies is still the subject of debate, but it can be certain that the gender of the children affects how adults treat them.

A well-known study has shown that women's attitudes towards the same child will vary depending on whether their attire is pink or blue. If the clothes are blue, the child will be attributed as a boy and the woman will treat him like a boy. Conversely, if the baby is wearing pink clothes, the woman will have softer gestures and choose a doll to play with the baby.

Pink for boys?

Pink can still be effective for both men and women

Above we have explored the hypothesis that explains the female and male color-picking habits. However, there is one more question: Is pink for women just a recent trend of fashion? Is it so many centuries ago that boys were also dressed in pink? Italian psychologist Marco Del Giudice has seriously studied history to answer this question. He searched for the theme of color and gender of children in more than 5 million books published in the United States or the UK from 1800 to 2000. Accordingly, very few books mentioned the image of "boy and color pink " and especially the " pink girl " concept began to become popular from the 1890s.

Do not stop at girls but even many organizations related to women use pink as their image symbol. Many studies have found that pink will attract more attention and will work more effectively in campaigns for women. However, there is still a pink situation used for both men and women. In 2002, researchers in Switzerland discovered that using pink paper to print survey questions would help the percentage of respondents from both men and women increase to 12%. Clearly, colors have a direct and indirect effect on human behavior. Scientists still have to do more research on this exciting debate in the future.