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The psychological effects of the pink visitors' locker room have not been heavily researched. Although the effects on color and performance have been studied in businesses and schools alike, no one has researched the effects that the pink locker room has had on the visiting athletes. When looking at the effectiveness of the pink locker room, there was an increase in the wins once Fry became head coach and changed the color of the locker room. His predecessor, Bob Cummings had, 19 win and 37 losses over his five-year career, while Fry in his first five years, totaled 34 wins and 24 losses. See Iowa Hawkeyes Football. It is unknown whether the increase in wins was due to Fry’s superior coaching; the talent increases of his players, the pink locker room, or something else entirely. While Fry hoped the effect on the visiting team would be a particularly profound one, no research has found that it has any affect on the visiting players.

Studies show that when individuals are equally talented, with the chances of winning split equally down the middle, the opponent wearing red is more likely to win than the opposing team. Based on the research, “wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning” because red, “coloration is a sexually selected, testosterone-dependent signal of male quality in a variety of animals”. This would seem to be an interesting finding considering sport teams will do almost anything to out perform their opponents; although still very little literature is found on the subject of color and team sports.

Hill, the author of the study stated above, makes a fundamental observation about humans, “colour is thought to influence human mood, emotions and expressed aggression, and is a recognized element of signaling in competitive interactions in many non-human species. But it has not hitherto been suspected to be a factor in human contests. Given the ubiquity of aggressive competition throughout human societies and history, our results suggest that the evolutionary psychology of colour is likely to be a fertile field for further investigation” ”. Women use this same type of psychology all the time. Women that wear red are more likely to be noticed by the men around them, from an evolutionary psychology perspective, red is the color of fertility and women that sport this color are signaling to men that they are indeed fertile.

How does this pertain to Kinnick Stadium and the Iowa’s Football program? If we base these sort of decisions on color. All the pro teams in the country would be wearing red. And in fact, according to The Sports Design Blog (2015), “Red is the most common color in MLB (14 teams) and the NBA (13)” It seems like some teams have already caught on to the trend.