Effect of the red uniform on the judgment of position or movement used in Wushu Routine, evaluated by practitioners of the modality

Experiment 1 design was adopted a 2 (Color: red, blue) x 2 (Gender: male, female) ANOVA. 144 Participants were randomly assigned to four groups based on uniform color (red vs. blue) and practitioners' gender (male vs. female) in a 2 x 2 between-subject design according to the method of random number table. There were 36 male athletes and 36 female athletes in the red uniform group, and 36 male athletes and 36 female athletes in the blue uniform group. Experiment 2 used within-subjects design to conducted experiment separately for the blue and red groups. The female practitioners were randomly assigned to two groups according to the method of random number table and made ratings of the athletes once during the ovulation phase and once during the non-ovulation phase. The order in which the tasks were completed was balanced between subjects: Half of the females in the blue group were tested first during ovulation and then during non-ovulation; the other half were tested first during non-ovulation and then during ovulation. The red group did the same arrangement. They were instructed to look at each photograph for 5s and then rate the quality of the each athlete's movements. After scoring was completed, they were told to proceed to the questionnaire, which was designed to probe for awareness of the manipulation. Finally, look at the differences in the ratings of Wushu Routine athletes wearing different colored uniform by these different groups of participants, and whether the subjects in Experiment 1 would have been aware of color effect. The results of Experiment 1 showed that both male and female athletes wearing red uniform (compared to blue uniform) received higher ratings, and the red effect was especially strong when male practitioners rated female athletes. The results of Experiment 2, in an all-female sample, showed that in most cases there was no difference in ratings made by women in the ovulation and non-ovulation phases of their menstrual cycle, with the exception of their ratings of male athletes wearing red; in this condition, women gave higher ratings when they were in the ovulation phase of their cycle.