TY  - GEN
A1  - Kayser, Daniela Niesta
A1  - Agthe, Maria
A1  - Maner, Jon K.
T1  - Strategic sexual signals
BT  - women's display versus avoidance of the color red depends on the attractiveness of an anticipated interaction partner
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwisseschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The color red has special meaning in mating-relevant contexts. Wearing red can enhance perceptions of women's attractiveness and desirability as a potential romantic partner. Building on recent findings, the present study examined whether women's (N = 74) choice to display the color red is influenced by the attractiveness of an expected opposite-sex interaction partner. Results indicated that female participants who expected to interact with an attractive man displayed red (on clothing, accessories, and/or makeup) more often than a baseline consisting of women in a natural environment with no induced expectation. In contrast, when women expected to interact with an unattractive man, they eschewed red, displaying it less often than in the baseline condition. Findings are discussed with respect to evolutionary and cultural perspectives on mate evaluation and selection.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 513 
KW  - enhances mens attraction
KW  - facial attractiveness
KW  - mate preferences
KW  - clothing color
KW  - health
KW  - receptivity
KW  - competition
KW  - evolution
KW  - beauty
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-411880
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 513
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kayser, Daniela Niesta
A1  - Graupmann, Verena
A1  - Fryer, James W.
A1  - Frey, Dieter
T1  - Threat to Freedom and the Detrimental Effect of Avoidance Goal Frames: Reactance as a Mediating Variable
JF  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - Two experiments examined how individuals respond to a restriction presented within an approach versus an avoidance frame. In Study 1, working on a problem-solving task, participants were initially free to choose their strategy, but for a second task were told to change their strategy. The message to change was embedded in either an approach or avoidance frame. When confronted with an avoidance compared to an approach frame, the participants’ reactance toward the request was greater and, in turn, led to impaired performance. The role of reactance as a response to threat to freedom was explicitly examined in Study 2, in which participants evaluated a potential change in policy affecting their program of study herein explicitly varying whether a restriction was present or absent and whether the message was embedded in an approach versus avoidance frame. When communicated with an avoidance frame and as a restriction, participants showed the highest resistance in terms of reactance, message agreement and evaluation of the communicator. The difference in agreement with the change was mediated by reactance only when a restriction was present. Overall, avoidance goal frames were associated with more resistance to change on different levels of experience (reactance, performance, and person perception). Reactance mediated the effect of goal frame on other outcomes only when a restriction was present.
KW  - freedom restriction
KW  - goal frames
KW  - avoidance
KW  - approach
KW  - reactance
KW  - self threat
KW  - change
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00632
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 7
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -